Full Wave Bridge Rectifier Simulation using Droid Tesla

Published May 15, 2020
 1 hours to build
 Expert

The working & operation of a full wave bridge rectifier is pretty simple. In the circuit diagram, 4 diodes are arranged in the form of a bridge. we simulate full wave bridge rectifier practical in droid tesla pro application and see the waveforms using simulation. The red colour waveform is shows the input waveform and the blue colour waveform is shows the output waveform.

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Components Used

Diode 1N400x
Diode 1N400x
4
12V Power Transformers
Power Transformers POWER XFMR [email protected] 115/230V CHASSIS MOUNT w/LUGS
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Description

Rectification methods to convert AC (Alternating Current) to DC (Direct Current) include full-wave rectification and half-wave rectification. In both cases, rectification is performed by utilizing the characteristic that current flows only in the positive direction in a diode.

Full-wave rectification:

It rectifies the negative component of the input voltage to a positive voltage, then converts it into DC (pulse current) utilizing a diode bridge configuration. In contrast, half-wave rectification removes just the negative voltage component using a single diode before converting to DC.
Afterward, the waveform is smoothed by charging/discharging a capacitor, resulting in a clean DC signal.
From this, it can be said that full-wave rectification is a more efficient method than half-wave rectification since the entire waveform is used.


Also, a ripple voltage that appears after smoothing will vary depending on the capacitance of this capacitor and the load.
Given the same capacitance and load, ripple voltage is smaller with full-wave rectification than haif-wave rectification. Of course it goes without saying that the smaller the ripple voltage the better the stability.

 

Waveform

Waveform

 

 

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