Power Electronics PCEE504 MCQ (2 marks each)

1) The charge stored in the depletion region of a diode during reverse recovery of 5s is 600C.
The rate of fall of current is (a) 120 A/s (b) 3000 A/s (c) 48 A/s (d) 24 A/s
2) The forward voltage of a diode conducting current IF(t) Amperes is given by 1.0+0.01*IF(t)
Volts. The peak forward voltage of the diode with 180o conduction of a sinusoidal current of
peak 50 Amperes will be (a) 1.0 Volts (b) 51 Volts (c) 1.01 Volts (d) 1.5 Volts
3) The thermal voltage VT at 25oC is 26 mV. The thermal voltage at 100oC is (a) 100 mV (b)
32.54 mV (c) 6.5 mV (d) cannot be calculated
4) A diode is connected in a circuit having max 600 V dc. To limit the di/dt in the diode within
200 A/s, the component needed is (a) 3 H (b) 3 F (c) 3  (d) combination of 3 F and 3 
5) A MOSFET has RDSON 0.05 . The conduction loss for a current of 20 Ampere at a 50% duty-
cycle shall be (a) 1 W (b) 0.5 W (c) 20 W (d) 10 W
6) A BJT has collector load current 50 Ampere and minimum hFE of 10. The base current for an
Over Drive Factor of 2 shall be: (a) 5 A (b) 25 A (c) 10 A (d) 2.5 A
7) A MOSFET switch operates with peak voltage 30 V, peak current 6 A. The turn-on time of
the MOSFET is 1.0 s and the turn-off time is 1.5 s. To limit the switching losses in the
MOSFET to 6 W, the maximum frequency shall be (a) 80 kHz (b) 160 kHz (c)72 kHz (d) 45 kHz
8) A diode carries an average current 100 Amperes for 180o conduction with an average forward
voltage 1.4 V. Find the conduction loss in the diode. (a) 14 W (b) 70 W (c) 140 W (d) 35 W
9) Two diodes are connected in series in a 2000 V dc supply. The reverse currents of the two
diodes are 6 A and 8 A respectively. The diodes are shunted by resistors of 1 M each. The
difference in the voltages across the diodes for reverse bias as expressed as percent of the supply
shall be (a) +/-1% (b) +/-2% (c) +/-0.1% (d) +/-0.2%
10) Two BJTs are connected in parallel for a total current 20 Amperes. The on-state voltage of
one BJT is 0.6 V and that of the other is 0.4 V. The series resistance needed for each BJT to keep
the difference in current between them within 5% of the total current will be (a) 0.1  (b) 0.2 
(c) 0.5  (d) 1 
11) An IGBT carries an average current of 100 A and has a forward voltage 1.1 V. The
maximum duty-cycle to limit the conduction loss at 55 W shall be (a) 50% (b) 55% (c) 45%
(d) 100%
12) A thyristor has peak maximum current 50 A and works on supply 500 V. The capacitor
needed for a dv/dt suppressor to limit the dv/dt to 400 V/s with a current safety factor of 2 shall
be (a) 0.22 F (b) 0.15 F (c) 0.1 F (d) 0.04 F
13) The emitter capacitor of an UJT firing circuit is 0.01 F and the frequency of firing pulses is
1 kHz. The intrinsic material constant of the UJT is 0.5. The emitter resistance needed is
(a) 67 k (b) 144 k (c) 187 k (d) 216 k
14) The peak voltage and current of an UJT are 15 V, 5A and the valley voltage and current are
5 V,5 mA respectively. For a supply voltage 20 V and taking the emitter resistance as the
geometric mean of two limits, the emitter resistance is given as (a) 25 k(b) 37 k (c) 55 k
(d) 82 k
15) The emitter capacitor in an UJT firing circuit is 22 nF. The equivalent resistance at base1 to
have a firing pulse width 10 s shall be (a) 220  (b) 330  (c) 455  (d) 820 
16) The main transistor in a Darlington pair has hFE=10 and the drive transistor has hFE=50. The
drive current needed for a main transistor collector load 20 A shall be (a) 20 mA (b) 40 mA
(c) 0.4 A (d) 2 A
17) Two diodes in series are shunted by resistors 1 M each on a 2000 V supply and conduct
120o. The losses in the resistors shall be (a) 1 W (b) 1.33 W (c) 2 W (d) 2.67 W
18) Two IGBTs are connected in parallel with series resistance 0.01 carry total current 200 A.
For a duty-cycle 33%, the losses will be (a) 67 W (b) 50 W (c) 33 W (d) 10 W
19) The time needed for capacitor voltage reversal for a combination of 50 H and 4 F shall be
(a) 1 s (b) 1.57 s (c) 3.14 s (d) 44.4 s
20) For a combination of 50 H and 4 F and dc supply 200 V the peak current is (a) 28.3 A
(b) 40 A (c) 56.6 A (d) 80 A
21) In a complimentary commutation circuit, the supply is 200 V dc, the main load current is
20 A and the main thyristor has a turn-off time 10 s. The minimum value of capacitance needed
is (a) 1 F (b) 1.25 F (c) 1.44 F (d) 2 F
22) In a complimentary commutation circuit, the supply is 200 V dc, the main load current is
20 A and the auxiliary load current is 2 A. The peak current in the main thyristor is (a) 22 A
(b) 18 A (c) 24 A (d) 16 A
23) In a voltage commutation circuit supply voltage is 200 V, the load current is 25 A, the
inductor is 100 H and the capacitor 4 f. The peak current in the main thyristor is (a) 25 A (b)
45 A (c) 50 A (d) 65 A
24) In a voltage commutation circuit the supply is 200 V dc, the load current is 25 A, the
inductor is 100 H and the capacitor 4 f. The commutation time for the main thyristor is
(a) 24 s (b) 32 s (c) 48 s (d) 60 s
25) In an external pulse commutation the main supply voltage is 200 V. The auxiliary supply
voltage must be greater than (a) 200 V (b) 150 V (c) 100 V (d) 50 V
26) In a current commutation circuit the supply is 200 V dc and the maximum load current is
40 A. The inductor used is 100 H. The minimum value of capacitance needed is (a) 4 F
(b) 10 F (c) 40 F (d) 100 F
27) The characteristics of an ideal TRIAC is

28) The characteristic represents an ideal (a) thyristor (b) IGBT (c) DIAC (d) BJT

29) An ideal combination of these switches will have characteristics:

30) An ideal combination of these switches will have characteristics:

Answers
Question Answer Question Answer Question Answer
1 c 11 a 21 c
2 d 12 d 22 c
3 b 13 b 23 d
4 a 14 c 24 b
5 d 15 c 25 c
6 c 16 b 26 a
7 a 17 b 27 b
8 b 18 a 28 a
9 c 19 d 29 d
10 b 20 c 30 c