1.

which one is not a basic building blocks of regulated DC power supply

a) step up transformer

b) rectifier & filter

c) voltage regulator

d) amplifier

Answer: d

2. Rectifier convert AC signal into ............

a) pulsating DC

b) DC signal

c) pulsating AC

d) pure DC signal

Answer: a

3. For a half wave or full wave rectifier the Peak Inverse Voltage of the rectifier is always

a) Greater than the input voltage

b) Smaller than the input voltage
c) Equal to the input voltage
d) Greater than the input voltage for full wave rectifier and smaller for the half
wave rectifier

Answer: b

4. Bridge rectifier is an alternative for

a) Full wave rectifier

b) Peak rectifier
c) Half wave rectifier
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: a

5. A silicon diode in a half-wave rectifier has a barrier potential of 0.7 V. This

has the effect of

A) reducing the peak output voltage by 0.7 V.

B) increasing the peak output voltage by 0.7 V.

 C) reducing the peak input voltage by 0.7 V.

D) no effect.

Answer: c

6. PIV is which of the following?

A) peak input voltage

B) peak inverse voltage

C) peak immediate voltage

D) positive input voltage

Answer : b

7. In a regulated supply, what term describes how much change occurs in

the output voltage over a certain range of load current values, from
minimum to maximum current?

A) line regulation

B) voltage regulator

C) current regulator

D) load regulation

Answer: d

8. In a regulated supply, what term describes how much change occurs in

the output voltage for a given change in the input voltage?

A) load regulation

B) voltage regulator

C) line regulation

D) ripple voltage
 Answer: c

9. If the ac supply is 50 Hz, what will be the ripple frequency out of the full-
wave rectifier?

A) 50 Hz

B) 60 Hz

C) 100 Hz

D) 120 Hz

Answer: c

10. . If the ac supply is 50 Hz, what will be the ripple frequency out of the
half-wave rectifier?

A) 30 Hz

B) 50 Hz

C) 60 Hz

D) 120 Hz

Answer: b

11. The ripple frequency from a full wave rectifier is

a. twice that from a half wave circuit

b. the same as that from a half wave circuit

c. half that from a half wave circuit

d. ¼ that from a half wave circuit

Answer: a

12. An advantage of full wave bridge rectification is

a. it uses the whole transformer secondary for the entire ac input cycle
 b. it costs less than other rectifier types

c. it cuts off half of the ac wave cycle

d. it never needs a filter

Answer: a

13. The best rectifier circuit for the power supply designed to provide high power at low voltage

is

a. half wave arrangement

b. full wave, center tap arrangement

c. quarter wave arrangement

d. voltage doubler arrangement

Answer: b

14. . The diode in a half wave rectifier has a forward resistance RF. The voltage is
Vmsinωt and the load resistance is RL. The DC current is given by _________

a) Vm/√2RL
b) Vm/(RF+RL)π
c) 2Vm/√π
d) Vm/RL

Answer: b

15. Efficiency of a half wave rectifier is

a) 50%
b) 60%
c) 40.6%
d) 46%

Answer: c
17. Transformer utilisation factor of a half wave rectifier is ________

a) 0.234
b) 0.279
c) 0.287
d) 0.453

Answer: c

18. Ripple factor of a half wave rectifier is_________(I  is the peak current and RL is load
m

resistance)

a) 1.414
b) 1.21
c) 1.4
d) 0.48

Answer: b

19. If peak voltage for a half wave rectifier circuit is 5V and diode cut in voltage is 0.7,
then peak inverse voltage on diode will be?

a) 5V
b) 4.9V
c) 4.3V
d) 6.7V

Answer: c

Explanation: PIV= vm- vd

=5-0.7=4.3V

20. If maximum voltage across secondary of half wave rectifier is 30v then what should
be PIV of diode?

a) 30v
 b) 40v

c) 60v

d) 80 v

Answer : a

Explanations: PIV= VM

21. Rectifier which results an output with a frequency twice the input
frequency that pulsates every half cycle of input voltage is

A. half wave rectifier

B. full wave rectifier
C. modulator
D. regulator

Answer: b

22.  A type of full wave rectifier that uses two diodes connected to secondary
of centre tapped transformer is called

A. single tapped transformer

B. side tapped transformer
C. double tapped transformer
D. center tapped transformer

Answer: d

23. An AC supply of 230 v is applied to half wave rectifier circuit .a

transformer turns ratio is 10:1 find : output DC voltage

a) 32.53 v

b) 23 v

C) 10.35 v
 D) 37.8 v

Answer: c

Explanations:

RMS secondary voltage

Vs= 230×(N1/N2)= 230/10 =23 v

Peak secondary voltage

VM= √2×vs= √2×23=32.53 v

VLdc= VM/π=10.35 v

24. Find :peak inverse voltage (take value from Q.23)

a) 10.35 v

b) 42.43 v

c) 15 v

d) 32.53 v

Answer: d

Explanation: PIV = Vm= 32.53 v

25. DC power output of center tapped full wave rectifier is equal to ___________
(Im is the peak current and RL is the load resistance)

a) (2Im2/ᴨ2)RL
b) (Im2/2 ᴨ2)RL
c) (Im2/ᴨ2)RL
d) (4Im2/ᴨ2)RL

Answer: d
26. Transformer utilization factor of a center tapped full wave rectifier is equal to
__________

a) 0.623
b) 0.678
c) 0.693
d) 0.625

Answer: c

27. Ripple factor of bridge full wave rectifier is?

a) 1.414
b) 1.212
c) 0.482
d) 1.321

Answer: c

30.which disadvantage of full wave rectifier overcome in the bridge rectifier ?

a) high PIV

b) high efficiency

c) high TUF

d) high output

Answer:a

32. In a shunt capacitor filter, the mechanism that helps the removal of ripples
is_________

a) The current passing through the capacitor

b) The property of capacitor to store electrical energy
 c) The voltage variations produced by shunting the capacitor
d) Uniform charge flow through the rectifier

Answer: b

33. The cut-in point of a capacitor filter is_________

a) The instant at which the conduction starts
b) The instant at which the conduction stops
c) The time after which the output is not filtered
d) The time during which the output is perfectly filtered

Answer:a

34. The rectifier current is a short duration pulses which cause the diode to act as
a_________
a) Voltage regulator
b) Mixer
c) Switch
d) Oscillator

Answer: c

35. Which of the following are true about capacitor filter?

a) It is also called as capacitor output filter
b) It is electrolytic
c) It is connected in parallel to load
d) It helps in storing the magnetic energy

Answer: b

36. The inductor filter gives a smooth output because_________

a) It offers infinite resistance to ac components
b) It offers infinite resistance to dc components
c) Pulsating dc signal is allowed
d) The ac signal is amplified

Answer: a

37. The inductor filter should be used when RL is consistently small because_________
a) Effective filtering takes place when load current is high
b) Effective filtering takes place when load current is low
c) Current lags behind voltage
d) Current leads voltage

Answer: a

38. What is the number of capacitors and inductors used in a π filter?

a) 1, 2 respectively
b) 2, 1 respectively
c) 1, 1 respectively
d) 2, 2 respectively

Answer b

39. Major part of the filtering is done by the first capacitor in a π filter because _________
a) The capacitor offers a very low reactance to the ripple frequency
b) The capacitor offers a very high reactance to the ripple frequency
c) The inductor offers a very low reactance to the ripple frequency
d) The inductor offers a very high reactance to the ripple frequency

Answer: a

40. The advantages of a pi-filter is_________

a) low output voltage
b) low PIV
c) low ripple factor
d) high voltage regulation

Answer: c

41. The inductor is placed in the L section filter because_________

a) It offers zero resistance to DC component
b) It offers infinite resistance to DC component
c) It bypasses the DC component
d) It bypasses the AC component

Answer:a

42. The value of inductance at which the current in a choke filter does not fall to zero
is_________
a) peak inductance
b) cut-in inductance
c) critical inductance
d) damping inductance

Answer : c

43. What makes the load in a choke filter to bypass harmonic components?
a) capacitor
b) inductor
c) resistor
d) diodes

Answer: a

44. The ripple to heavy loads by a capacitor is_______

a) high
b) depends on temperature
c) low
d) no ripple at all

Answer: c

45. In a choke L section filter_______

a) the inductor and capacitor are connected across the load
b) the inductor is connected in series and capacitor is connected across the load
c) the inductor is connected across and capacitor is connected in series to the load
d) the inductor and capacitor are connected in series

Answer: b

46. In inductive filter the value of load resistance is 50 ohms and inductor is 20 mH

The rectifier is operated at the frequency of 50 Hz find ripple factor

a) 0.472
b) 5.7
c) 31.4
d) 1 87

Answer: d

Explanation: using ripple factor formula =R/(3√2wL)

 = 50/(3√2×2π×50×20×10^-3)

= 1.87

48. The basic purpose of filter at the output of a rectifier is to

(A) minimize variations in ac input signal
(B) suppress harmonics in rectified output
(C) remove ripples from the rectified output
(D) stabilize dc output voltage

Answer: c

49. What is correct about the ripple factor of LC filter?

(A) Increases with the load current
(B) increases with the load resistance
(C) remains constant with the load current
(D) has the lowest value

Answer: c

50. C filters are suitable for ___________ load resistances and L filters are suitable for
_____________ load resistances.
a)  low, low
b)  high, high
c)  high, low
d)  low, high

Answer:c