Working

1
st
when the A.C. is supplied to the transformer, it steps down the230V main
supply to 6 volts. It has a capability of delivering a currentof 500mA. The 6
volts A.C. appearing across the secondary is theRMS valur and the peak value
is
26

or 8.4 volts. During the 1

st
half cycle of the A.C. input Diode D1 is forward biased and a currentI flows in
the circuit in the direction S1D1ABEOS1. During thistime diode D2 is reverse
biased. So it does not conduct any electriccurrent. During the next half cycle
the diode D2 is forward and D1 isreversed. Hence D2 conducts current in the
direction S2D2ABEOS2and D1 does not conduct any current. In subsequent
half cycles of theA.C current the above processes are repeated. In both the
half cyclesit is clear that current flows through the resistor in only one
directionABE. Even though the voltage across RL is unidirectional it will
stillcontain a few A.C components. This is filtered and made smoothusing a
capacitor, which filters 99% of the A.C current. A resistor isthen used to
adjust the output voltage. We can then test the o/pVoltage using a multimeter.Efficiency of Rectification
= D.C power outputTotal A.C input power For a half wave rectifier,


~ 0.406 = 40.6 %For a full wave rectifier, the one used here is

~ 0.812 = 81.2 %By the use of more number of diodes the efficiency can be
increase toa maximum of 94.6%. Here we only use 2 diodes. The use of
multiple

capacitors also nearly filters all A.C components from the supply
andresistance is adjusted for the required output. As this is a simplecircuit,
only one capacitor and a resistance is being used. But therewill be slight
factor of A.C. current still left in the output but it isnegligible.
RECTIFIED D.C VOLTAGE

OBSERVATION:Capacitance (C) (

F)Resistance (R) (K

)Output Voltage
(DC)100058015.031000259.613.511000661.614.691000563.614.68Result:A
full Wave rectifier is constructed & output voltage for differentoutput
resistance is measured and tabulated.BIBILIOGRAPHY1)Electronic projects for
beginners by A.K Manini2)Comprehensive physics (class_XIIth , NCERT
based)3)Comprehensive practical physics4)NCERT based CBSE text for XIIth