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Half Wave Rectifier
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Aim

To design and simulate a Half Wave Rectifier circuit.

Components

Name EDWin Components Description Number of


Used components
required

RES RC05 Resistor 1

DIODE 1N4007 Diode 1

VGEN SMB_VGEN Ac voltage 1


source

GND SMB_SPL0 Ground 1

Theory

The Half wave rectifier is a circuit, which converts an ac voltage to dc voltage.

In the Half wave rectifier circuit shown above the transformer serves two purposes.

1. It can be used to obtain the desired level of dc voltage (using step up or step down transformers).
2. It provides isolation from the power line.

The primary of the transformer is connected to ac supply. This induces an ac voltage across the secondary of the transformer.

During the positive half cycle of the input voltage the polarity of the voltage across the secondary forward biases the diode.
As a result a

current IL flows through the load resistor, RL. The forward biased diode offers a very low resistance and hence the voltage

drop across it is very small. Thus the voltage appearing across the load is practically the same as the input voltage at every
instant.

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During the negative half cycle of the input voltage the polarity of the secondary voltage gets reversed. As a result, the diode
is reverse biased.

Practically no current flows through the circuit and almost no voltage is developed across the resistor. All input voltage
appears across the diode

itself.

Hence we conclude that when the input voltage is going through its positive half cycle, output voltage is almost the same as
the input voltage

and during the negative half cycle no voltage is available across the load. This explains the unidirectional pulsating dc
waveform obtained

as output. The process of removing one half the input signal to establish a dc level is aptly called half wave rectification.

Peak Inverse Voltage

When the input voltage reaches its maximum value Vm during the negative half cycle the voltage across the diode is also
maximum. T

his maximum voltage is known as the peak inverse voltage. Thus for a half wave rectifier

Let Vi be the voltage to the primary of the transformer. Vi is given by

where Vr is the cut-in voltage of the diode.

Ripple Factor

Ripple factor is defined as the ratio of rms value of ac component to the dc component in the output.

Ripple factor

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Vav the average or the dc content of the voltage across the load is given by

RMS voltage at the load resistance can be calculated as

Ripple Factor

Efficiency

Efficiency, h is the ratio of the dc output power to ac input power

Thus

Transformer Utilization Factor

Transformer Utilization Factor, TUF can be used to determine the rating of a transformer secondary.

In half wave rectifier the rated voltage of the transformer secondary is

But actually the RMS current flowing through the winding is only .

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Form Factor
Visionics is a trade name of Norlinvest Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

Form factor is given by,

Peak Factor

Peak factor is given by,

Procedure

EDWin 2000 -> Schematic Editor: The circuit diagram is drawn by loading components from the library. Wiring and proper
net assignment has

been made. The values are assigned for relevant components.

EDWin 2000 -> Mixed Mode Simulator: The circuit is preprocessed. The test points and waveform markers are placed in
input and output of the

circuit. GND net is set as reference net. The Transient Analysis parameters have been set. The Transient Analysis is
executed and output

waveform is observed in Waveform Viewer.

Result

The output waveform may be observed in the waveform viewer.

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