Half Wave Voltage Doubler using Diodes
July 8, 2016
Voltage multipliers use clamping action to increase peak rectified voltages without the necessity of increasing the transformer’s voltage rating. Multiplication factors...
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Diode Clampers Principle
July 7, 2016
A clamper adds a dc level to an ac voltage. Clampers are sometimes known as dc restorers. Below Figure shows...
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Positive & Negative Diode Clippers
July 7, 2016
Diode Biased Limiters/Clippers First read basics of Diode Clippers. Click Here to read The level to which an ac voltage...
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Diode Limiters/Clippers Operation
July 7, 2016
Diode circuits, called limiters or clippers, are sometimes used to clip off portions of signal voltages above or below certain levels....
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Basics of Voltage Regulators
July 7, 2016
While filters can reduce the ripple from power supplies to a low value, the most effective approach is a combination of...
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Ripple Voltage in Rectifiers
July 7, 2016
Ripple Voltage As you have seen, the capacitor quickly charges at the beginning of a cycle and slowly discharges through RL...
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Capacitor Filter Working Principle
July 7, 2016
A half-wave rectifier with a capacitor-input filter is shown in Below Figure. The filter is simply a capacitor connected from...
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Full Wave Bridge Rectifier Peak Inverse Voltage
July 7, 2016
Peak Inverse Voltage Let’s assume that D1 and D2 are forward-biased and examine the reverse voltage across D3 and D4. Visualizing...
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Full Wave Bridge Rectifier Operation
July 7, 2016
The bridge rectifier uses four diodes connected as shown in Figure. When the input cycle is positive as in part (a),...
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Peak Inverse Voltage of Center Tap Rectifier
July 7, 2016
Peak Inverse Voltage Each diode in the full-wave rectifier is alternately forward-biased and then reverse-biased. The maximum reverse voltage that each...
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