EEE 1218 Sessional on Analog Electronics

Date: 06-06-2021 Student’s Name: Afiat Khan Tahsin Roll: 1907047

Experiment 03: Demonstration of Zener Diode as a Voltage Regulator

1. OBJECTIVES
The main objective(s) of the experiment is/are to
I. Know how Zener Diode works in voltage regulation

2. EXPERIMENTAL SET UP AND MATERIALS

Components and apparatus required:

Name Specification Quantity

DC Power supply 0-30V, 5A 1 pc
Zenner Diode 1N4148 1 pc
Rheostate 100 kiloohm, 5W 1 pc
DC voltmeter 0-50V 1 pc

Fig 1: Variable power supply, load constant setup Fig 2: Constant power supply, variable load setup
3. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Data Table 01 (When Supply Voltage is Variable But Load is Constant (2.7 Kilo Ohms))

Supply Voltage Output voltage

(Volts) (Volts)
1 0.73
2 1.46
3 2.19
4 2.92
5 3.65
6 4.38
7 5.08
8 5.2
9 5.27
10 5.33
11 5.39
12 5.44
13 5.5
14 5.55
15 5.61

Fig 3: Characteristic graph for variable voltage.

Data Table 02 (When Supply Voltage is Constant (10 Volts) But Load is Variable)

Supply Voltage Output voltage

(Volts) (Volts)
1 5
2 5.29
3 5.34
4 5.37
5 5.38
6 5.39
7 5.4
8 5.41
9 5.41
 10 5.41
11 5.42
12 5.42
13 5.42
14 5.42
15 5.42

Fig 4: Characteristic graph for variable load.

4. DISCUSSION

This experiment is about how Zener Diode works as a voltage regulator. In the first experimental setup,
we used a variable power supply and constant load parallel to Zener diode. When we started increasing
the voltage, the voltage across the load also started increasing proportionally but after a certain
voltage, the output voltage started increasing very slowly.

In the second setup, we used variable load and constant power supply. This time after changing the load
resistance we can’t see any significant change of output voltage compare to the first experimental
setup. And at a certain load resistance we got a more constant voltage compare to the first
experimental setup.