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Republic of the Philippines

SOUTHERN LEYTE STATE UNIVERSITY
Main Campus, Sogod, Southern Leyte
Telefax No. (053)382-3294/382 2523
Website: www.slsuonline.edu.ph

Activity No. 2 Date Performed: March 10,

2020
Rating:_____________ Date Submitted: _______________

_Series RC Circuit_
Title

I. Objectives

I.1 To design Series RC circuit and determine the current through each
element.
I.2 To determine the phase difference between the voltage source and the
total current.

II. Materials or Apparatus

74550 – Three – phase Transformer TL380 kV

74557 – Earth Fault Compensation
745561 – Power Circuit Breaker Module
72675 – Three – phase Supply Unit with FCCB
73310 – Resistive Load 1.0
73311 – Capacitive Load 1.0
50059 – Safety bridging plugs, black
500591 – Safety bridging plugs, yellow/green
500851 – Safety connecting leads, 32 A
500852 – Safety connecting leads, 32 A, yellow/green
500852 – Safety connecting leads, 25 cm, black
72731 – Ammeter
72738 – Voltmeter

III. Circuit Diagram

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IV. Theory:

When we apply an AC voltage to a series RL circuit as shown below, the

circuit behaves in some ways the same as the series RC circuit, and in some ways as
a sort of mirror image. For example, current is still the same everywhere in this
series circuit. VR is still in phase with I, and V L is still 90° out of phase with I.
However, this time VL leads I — it is at +90° instead of -90°.

For this circuit, we will assign experimental values as follows: R = Ω, C = µF and

VAC = Vrms. We build the circuit and measure V across C, and V across R. As we
might have expected, this exceeds the source voltage by a substantial amount and
the phase shift is the reason for it.
 
The vectors for this example circuit are shown to the right. This time the composite
phase angle is positive instead of negative, because VL leads IL. But to determine just
what that phase angle is, we must start by determining XL and then calculating the
rest of the circuit parameters.
 
This can be easily verified using the simulator, by creating the above mentioned
circuit and measuring the current and voltages across the resistor and inductor.

 
V. Procedure

1. Assemble the circuit in the Power Engineering Equipment Trainer referring to

the circuit diagram and the values of parameters as shown in section 3.
2. Measure the voltage across the resistive load.
3. Measure the voltage across the capacitive load.
4. Measure the current through the circuit.
5. Compare the computed value and the measured value.

VI. Data and Results

Computed Measured
Given
Values Values
Voltage Frequenc Resistance Capacitance I VR VC I VR VC
Source y
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VII. Computation

VIII. Observation/Conclusion/Generalization

IX. DOCUMENTATIONS
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