A FULL WAVE BRIDGE RECTIFIER

Advantages of Full Wave Rectifier

1. Full wave rectifiers have some fundamental advantages over their half wave rectifier
counterparts.
2. The average (DC) output voltage is higher than for half wave rectifier, the output of the
full wave rectifier has much less ripple than that of the half wave rectifier producing a
smoother output waveform.
3. The advantages of a full-wave bridge rectifier are that it has a smaller AC ripple value for
a given load and a lower reservoir or smoothing capacitor than an equivalent half-wave
rectifier circuit.
4. It is the primary component to get D.C voltage for the elements which operate with D.C
voltage. One can describe its working as a full wave rectifier project.
It is the heart of the circuit. Full wave rectifier uses the diode bridge. Capacitors are used
to get rid of ripples. Based on the requirement of D.C voltage

A FULL WAVE BRIDGE RECTIFIER

 Disadvantages of Half Wave Rectifier

1. Half wave rectification involves a lot of wastage of energy, and hence it is not preferred.
2. A small current flows in reverse bias due to minority charge carriers. As the output
across (RL) is negligible.
3. The resulting d.c. Voltage is not steady enough for some purpose. The following device
is practiced when a very constant d.c. energy is required

CONCLUSION
1. For bridge type, no center tap required on the transformers. Here much smaller
transformers are used. The bridge rectifier operated for high voltage application. For the
same secondary voltage, the output voltage is twice that of the center tapped full wave
rectifier.The bridge rectifier with filter section is buildup. A.c and D.C voltages can
measure for efficiency is assumed.
2. By doing this project, we came to knew that a full wave bridge rectifier could be built
without center tapping transformer. And also we arrived to find the efficiency of whole
wave rectifier.
3. At the same time, some disadvantages are there. Here two other diodes are required,
and voltage regulation is not satisfactory.

BIBILIOGRAPHY
1.NCERT Textbook
2.Help from teachers
3.Websites
 www.scribd.com

 www.wikipedia.com

INDEX
1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2. ABSTRACT

3. RECTIFIER

4. FULL WAVE RECTIFIER

5. CIRCUIT OF A FULL WAVE RECTIFIER

6. CHARACTERSTICS OF A FULL WAVE

RECTIFIER

7. APPLICATIONS OF A FULL WAVE RECTIFIER

8. ADVANTAGES OF A FULL WAVE RECTIFIER

9. DISADVANTAGES OF A FULL WAVE

RECTIFIER

10. CONCLUSION

11.BIBLIOGRAPHY
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In the accomplishment of this project many people have best owned upon me

their blessings. This time I am utilizing to thank all of them who have been

concerned with the project.

I would like to thank Mr P.C Verma our physics teacher who guided me to

patch this project.

Then I would like to thank my parents and my classmates who helped me a

lot in completion of this project.