While filters can reduce the ripple from power supplies to a low value, the most effective approach is a combination of…
Ripple Voltage As you have seen, the capacitor quickly charges at the beginning of a cycle and slowly discharges through RL…
A half-wave rectifier with a capacitor-input filter is shown in Below Figure. The filter is simply a capacitor connected from…
Peak Inverse Voltage Let’s assume that D1 and D2 are forward-biased and examine the reverse voltage across D3 and D4. Visualizing…
The bridge rectifier uses four diodes connected as shown in Figure. When the input cycle is positive as in part (a),…
Peak Inverse Voltage Each diode in the full-wave rectifier is alternately forward-biased and then reverse-biased. The maximum reverse voltage that each…
A center-tapped rectifier is a type of full-wave rectifier that uses two diodes connected to the secondary of a center-tapped transformer,…
A full-wave rectifier allows unidirectional (one-way) current through the load during the entire 360° of the input cycle, whereas a half-wave…
Half Wave Rectifier : Half-Wave Rectifier Operation The below Figure illustrates the process called half-wave rectification. A diode is connected…
All active electronic devices require a source of constant dc that can be supplied by a battery or a dc power…
