Figure 1.

Circuit Design of a Power Supply, using Multisim

Computation:
For the filtered, full-wave, bridge type power supply, we had the following formulas that we used before:

𝐸𝐿𝑃𝑘 𝐸𝑆𝑝𝑘
𝐸𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝐿𝑃𝑘
1 + √3𝐾𝑟
𝐸𝐿𝑟𝑚𝑠
𝐸𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 √1 + 𝐾𝑟2
𝐾𝑟 1
2√3𝑓𝑟 𝑅𝐿 𝐶
𝑃𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝐿2𝑟𝑚𝑠
𝑅𝐿
Table 1. Filtered Full-Wave Bridge Type Power Supply Formulas (1st Approximation)
But then again, these formulas only apply to the first approximation of the diode only. To make things more accurate,
we chose to use the 2nd approximation. This makes the diode have a voltage drop of 0.7 Volts since, this particular
diode (1N4007) is made from Silicon.

Figure 2: Rectifier with Filter

Looking and analyzing this particular section of the power supply, we disconnect the voltage regulator and the
output load since that part is in parallel with the LED and the 2kΩ resistor. We assumed he output of the filtering
circuit to be just as pure as pure DC. Then, making the LED and the 2kΩ resistor as the only load for the filtering
circuit (called Secondary Load in Figure 2) and as the basis of the DC voltage for the disconnected circuit later on,
we apply second approximation. By KVL, we have:
 𝐸𝑆𝑝𝑘 − 0.7𝑉 − 𝐸"𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦"𝐿𝑃𝑘 − 0.7𝑉 = 0 (1)

Which makes:
𝐸"𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦"𝐿𝑃𝑘 = 𝐸𝑆𝑝𝑘 − 1.4𝑉 (2)

Changing 𝐸𝐿𝑝𝑘 from Table 1 by Equation (2) we have:

𝐸𝐿𝑃𝑘 𝐸𝑆𝑝𝑘 − 1.4𝑉

𝐸𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝐿𝑃𝑘
1 + √3𝐾𝑟
𝐸𝐿𝑟𝑚𝑠
𝐸𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 √1 + 𝐾𝑟2
𝐾𝑟 1
; 𝑓𝑟 = 120ℎ𝑧
2√3𝑓𝑟 𝑅𝐿 𝐶
𝑃𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝐿2𝑟𝑚𝑠
𝑅𝐿
Table 2. Filtered Full-Wave Bridge Type Power Supply Formulas (2nd Approximation)

Solving now 𝐸𝑎𝑣𝑒 of LED and 2kΩ resistor (or the 𝐸"𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦"𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 ) we get:

𝐸𝑠𝑃𝑘 = 𝐸𝑠𝑟𝑚𝑠 √2 = 15V ∗ √2 = 21.2132𝑉 (3)

𝐸"𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦"𝐿𝑃𝑘 = 21.2132𝑉 − 1.4𝑉 = 19.8132𝑉 (4)

1
𝐾𝑟 = 2 = 1.2028 × 103 (5)
√3(120Hz)(2kΩ)(1𝑚𝐹)

19.8132𝑉
𝐸"𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦"𝐿𝑎𝑣𝑒 = = 19.7720𝑉 (6)
1+√3(1.2028×103 )