National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering

EE420: Power Electronics

Faculty Member: Dr. Kamran Zeb Dated: 05-04-2023

Semester: 6th Section: A

Lab09: Cuk Converter (Open Ended Lab)

PLO4/CLO5 PLO4/CLO5 PLO5/CLO6 PLO8/CLO7 PLO9/CLO8

Name Reg. No Viva / Lab Analysis of Modern Tool Ethics and Individual Total
Performance data in Lab Usage Safety and Team marks
Report Work Obtained

5 Marks 5 Marks 5 Marks 5 Marks 5 Marks 25 Marks

Shameen Mazhar

Maria Noor Wagho 336228

Maryam Asif 336531

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Department of Electrical Engineering

Objective
In this open-ended lab, we are going to implement a Cuk converter which is a combination of two
stages, first boost and then buck. It has two working topologies, one provides a non-inverted output voltage
and the other provides an inverted output voltage. We will simulate the former on PSpice and then patch it
on hardware to observe the voltages and the currents throughout the circuit for different variations in the
applied switching control signal/ duty cycle.

Simulation

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Results

 D = 2/50 = 0.04
 D = 20/50 = 0.4

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Department of Electrical Engineering

 D= 30/50 = 0.6
 D = 45 /50 = 0.9

Hardware Implementation
E2 is the applied voltage and E3 is the output voltage.

 D ~ 0.1

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 D ~ 0.3

 D ~ 0.5

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Department of Electrical Engineering

 D ~ 0.7

Conclusion
We have
observed different behaviors of the chopper at different
values of duty cycle. We went from a minimum duty
cycle to maximum and observed how the converter
changes from step-down action to step-up with the
change in duty cycle. We also observed the inverted action of Cuk converter since the output voltage
received is a negative/inverted value in both the simulation and hardware implementation results.

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