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Practical Experiment Instruction Sheet
EXPERIMENTTITLE: To Study Half wave and Full wave rectifier.
ExperimentNo.:MIT(T)/ESC/ /BEE/02
Class:FY( ) DEPARTMENT: Electronics and Computer Engineering
Location: Date of starting the Expt.:
LABORATORY: Part- II Date of Completion;
Date of Assessment:
EXPERIMENTNO.2
Aim: To Study Half wave and Full wave rectifier.
a. To plot input and output waveform of Half wave rectifier.
b. To plot input and output waveform of Full wave rectifier.
Apparatus:
1. Digital Multimeter
2. AC power supplies of 0-9Vrms from external source or ST2612 Analog Lab.
3. Oscilloscope.
4. 2mmpatchcords.
5. Analog board ofAB09.
Circuit diagram:
Circuit used to study the Half wave Rectifier is shown in figure:

Figure: Circuit diagram of Half wave Rectifier with input and output waveforms

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 Theory:
Rectifier is an electronic device that converts alternating current into direct current. A rectifier changes AC
into DC by eliminating the negative half-cycles of the alternating voltage, so it provides a new ay path for
electric current i.e. conduction takes place in one direction only. It is in this way that a rectifier converts an
alternating current into unidirectional current.
Rectifier can be classified into two categories:
1. Half-wave rectifier
2. Full-wave rectifier
Half wave rectifier. It conducts only on positive half cycles of input voltages i.e. it uses one half cycles of
AC input voltages to produce DC output .On the other hand, a full wave rectifier conducts on both the half
cycles of input AC voltage to produce DC output. So a full wave rectifier circuit can supply more DC
output more than the equivalent.
Half wave Rectifier:

A half wave rectifier employs a single diode as shown in figure

Figure: Half wave rectifier
During the positive half cycle of the input voltage diode conducts, so as circuit equivalence of the ideal
diode will result in an output signal which is an exact replica of the input signal? For the negative half
cycle of the applied signal diode is in the off state with an open circuit equivalent, which results in the
absence of a path for the charge to flow, so a zero voltage appears for the negative half cycle of input
voltage. The AC power deliver sonly half the time, hence output is low.
Peak inverse voltage:
The maximum reverse bias potential that can be applied to a diode before entering the Zener region is
called peak inverse voltage or peak reverse voltage.
Half wave Rectifier PIV rating ≥ V m
Center tap Full wave Rectifier PIV rating ≥ 2Vm
Full wave Bridge Rectifier PIV rating ≥ V m
Rectification efficiency:

The ratio of DC output power to the AC power input in a rectifier is known as rectification efficiency.

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- Ripple factor:
The ratio of r.m.s. value of AC component to the DC component in the rectifier output is known as ripple
factor. The smaller the ripple factor, the lesser the effective AC component and hence more effective is the
rectifier..

Figure shows full wave center tapped rectifier circuit. It consists of two diodes, transformer and load
resistor.

Procedure:
1. Connect 0-10V rms from AC Power Supply (transformer/por function generator)as shown in circuit
diagram.
2. Switch On the power supply.
3. Connect load resistance RL across the output of half wave rectifier.
4. Connect Ch I of oscilloscope across load resistor and observe the half wave rectified o/p wave form
across the load resistor (keep AC/DC push button switch of oscilloscope in AC position.
5. Measure the output DC voltage by pressing the AC/DC push button switch of the oscilloscope or by
connecting a digital multimeter across socket sj and ni. across load resistance and calculate PIV, ripple
factor and rectifier efficiency.
Calculation:

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Conclusion:
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Q.1 The value of Average dc voltage for Half Wave Rectifier is?
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Q.2 Write types of full wave rectifier circuit?
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Q.3 Write down values of PIV and rectifier efficiency of Half Wave Rectifier?
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Le Cognitive Affective Psychomotor
vel Comprehension Responding Manipulation
Level3 Describe the operation Willing to respond and Reproduce activity
of different rectifiers. active learning from instruction
and can interpret.
Level2 Can describe the Willingness to respond Reproduce activity
Operation of one of but not self-learning From instruction and can‘t
the rectifiers. interpret.
Can‘t describe the Not willing Can’t reproduce activity
Level1 operation of one of the to respond. from instruction
rectifiers.

Assessment
Cognitive(3) Affective(3) Psychomotor(3) Total(9)

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