16Diode Rectifiers and Filters
OBJECTIVES: After studying this chapter, you will be able to
- Describe how AC is converted to DC
- Explain the quality of direct current as obtained from a rectifier
- Define ripple and how one can reduce ripples
- Understand the significance of filtering in rectified electricity
- Describe how one can add filters to a rectified waveform
- Explain what a half-wave rectifier and a full-wave rectifier are
- Define bridge rectifier
- Make a diode rectifier for single-phase AC
- Make a diode rectifier for three-phase AC
- Construct a power supply with filtered and regulated output
- Define various types of filters
- Define and use low pass filters, band pass filters, high pass filters, and band reject filters
New terms: Attenuation, ...
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