EEP 468 Power Electronics

Gussan Maaz Mufti

 The bridge (full-wave or double-way)
connection can be arranged to be either
uncontrolled,
fully-controlled,
or half-controlled configurations
We will describe each connection in
turn.
 The bridge (full-wave or double-way)
connection can be arranged to be either
 The same circuit drawn to a different
diagrammatic layout as in Fig. 2-7b shows
clearly the concept of two half-wave circuits
in series making the full-wave connection,
two diodes with common cathodes feeding
into the load
Two diodes with common anodes returning
the load current to the other supply line.
However, the layout of Fig. 2-7b is rather
cumbersome, and for power applications the
layout of Fig. 2-7c is used.
 In constructing the voltage waveforms,
some circuit reference must be used and
in this respect one can construct the
supply waveforms with reference to a mid-
point neutral N as shown in Fig. 2-7d, thus
enabling a comparison to be made to the
half-wave circuit of Fig. 2-5

The diode voltage VD1 has a peak reverse

value of the maximum value of the supply
voltage, this being only half the value in
the half-wave connection
 Class Activity
Given the following Vs and firing angles
draw VL IL I1 I2 I3 I4 Is and Vt1
 Assignemnt No 2
Draw the waveforms and explain the working of
the half controlled circuit as shown in the figure.