1∅ Uncontrolled

Rectifiers
Half wave rectifier [RE load]
Half wave rectifier [RLE load]
If peak voltage for a half wave rectifier circuit is 5V and diode cut in
voltage is 0.7, then peak inverse voltage on diode will be?

a) 5V
b) 4.9V
c) 4.3V
d) 6.7V
Transformer utilization factor of a half wave rectifier is _________

a) 0.234
b) 0.279
c) 0.287
d) 0.453
Ripple factor of a half wave rectifier is_________(Im is the peak current
and RL is load resistance)
a) 1.414
b) 1.21
c) 1.4
d) 0.48
1∅ Controlled
Rectifiers
Half wave [R-Load]
Half wave [R-Load]
Half wave [RL-Load]
Half wave [RL-Load]
Half wave with Freewheeling Diode
[RL-Load]
Half wave with Freewheeling Diode
[RL-Load]
Half wave [RE-Load]
Half wave [RE-Load]
Half wave [RLE-Load]
A 1 − ϕ half-wave rectifier is used to supply power to a load of
impedance 8Ω from 220V, 50 Hz AC supply at a firing angle of
600 .The effective value of voltage is
(a) 160 V
(b) 172 V
(c) 140 V
(d) 120 V
If a single-phase half-wave rectifier feeds a resistive load R = 10Ω
and the data sheet of SCR specifies maximum r.m.s. ON state
current as 10A, then the average ON state current rating for firing
angle of 900 is equal to
(a) 5 A
(b) 7.5 A
(c) 8 A
(d) 4.5 A
A single-phase one pulse converter feeding RE load has the
following data:
Source voltage: 230 V at 50 Hz; E = 100 V ; R = 10Ω
The thyristor is continuously triggered by a constant dc pulse, then
the peak inverse voltage across thyristor is
(a) 445 V
(b) 2 × 230 2
(c) 330 V
(d) 425 V
A half-wave thyristor converter supplies a purely inductive load, as
shown in figure. If the triggering angle of the thyristor is 1200 , the
extinction angle will be

(a) 2400
(b) 1800
(c) 2000
(d) 1200
MN1

Consider a phase – controlled converter shown in figure the

thyristor is fired an angle α in every positive half cycle of the input
voltage. If the peak value of the instantaneous output voltage
equals 230 V, the firing angle α is close to

(a) 450
(b) 1350
(c) 900
(d) 83.60