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Power Supply Systems and Components Guide

The document is a reading assignment for NSPH 3112 – Electronics, due on December 23, 2025, and requires group work. It includes questions on power supply systems, rectifiers, filters, ripple voltage, and the functioning of Zener diodes and LEDs. The assignment is not graded and covers various technical concepts related to electronics.

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Power Supply Systems and Components Guide

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NSPH 3112 – Electronics

READING ASSIGNMENT

23th December, 2025

Instructions:

1. Do this assignment in groups of three to five people


2. The assignment is not graded

Questions

Study about power supply, filters and regulators, Zener diodes, and light emitting diodes
(LEDs) then answer the following questions.

1. Draw the block diagram of a complete power supply system with transformer, rectifier,
filter, regulator, and load, and explain the function of each component.
2. When a 60 Hz sinusoidal voltage is applied to the input of a half-wave rectifier, what is the
output frequency?
3. When a 60 Hz sinusoidal voltage is applied to the input of a full-wave rectifier, what is the
output frequency?
4. What causes the ripple voltage on the output of a capacitor-input filter?
5. If the load resistance connected to a filtered power supply is decreased, what happens to
the ripple voltage?
6. Define ripple factor.
7. What is the difference between input (line) regulation and load regulation?
8. If one of the diodes in a bridge rectifier shorts, what are some possible consequences?
9. Consider the circuit in Figure 1
a. What type of circuit is this?
b. What is the total peak secondary voltage?
c. Find the peak voltage across each half of the
secondary.
d. Sketch the voltage waveform across RL.
e. What is the peak current through each diode?
Figure 1
f. What is the PIV for each diode?
10. A rectifier filter produces a dc output voltage of 50 V with a peak-to-peak ripple voltage of
0.4 V. Calculate the ripple factor.
11. A full-wave rectifier has a peak output voltage of 20 V and output frequency of 120 Hz. A
40 µF capacitor-input filter is connected to the rectifier. Calculate the peak-to-peak ripple
and the dc output voltage across a 500Ω load resistance.
12. Explain how a Zener diode and light emitting diode (LED) works.

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