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The arrow on the diode ( ) indicates the direction of the current in the diode Because of the diode, the alternating current in the load resistor is reduced to the positive portion of the cycle
Half-Wave Rectifier
The solid line in the graph is the result through the resistor It is called a half-wave rectifier because current is present in the circuit during only half of each cycle
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Input volt ag e
R load B
diode cut-of f
diode cut-of f
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. This 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. Ripplefactor
Vav the average or the dc content of the voltage across the load is given by
RIPPLE FACTOR
Efficiency Efficiency, 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 .