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Half Wave Rectifier Efficiency and Operation

This document discusses a half wave rectifier, which uses a diode to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). During the positive half cycle of the AC input, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing the voltage to pass to the load. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reversed biased so no voltage passes. As a result, only one half of the AC waveform is used, reducing the output voltage and current to about 40.6% of the input. While simple, the half wave rectifier has low efficiency and power output, making it unsuitable for many applications.

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Half Wave Rectifier Efficiency and Operation

This document discusses a half wave rectifier, which uses a diode to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). During the positive half cycle of the AC input, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing the voltage to pass to the load. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reversed biased so no voltage passes. As a result, only one half of the AC waveform is used, reducing the output voltage and current to about 40.6% of the input. While simple, the half wave rectifier has low efficiency and power output, making it unsuitable for many applications.

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Half wave Rectifier

Content
• Diode rectifier and types
• Half wave rectifier
• Operation
• Average output voltage and current
• Efficiency

1
Diode Rectifier
• A rectifier is a circuit which converts the AC
input power into a Direct Current (DC) output
power.

Types of Diode rectifier


(i) Half wave rectifier (ii) Full wave rectifier

2
Half-wave Rectifier

• In half-wave rectifier, the diode is conducting


only during the positive half-cycles of input a.c.
supply.
• Hence, input voltage is appeared across the load.
• The negative half-cycles of a.c. supply, the diode
is reverse biased and hence no voltage is appeared
across the load.

3
Operation of Half-wave rectifier
Circuit diagram Voltage and current waveforms

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Operation cont.…

• During the positive half-cycle of input a.c. voltage,


terminal A becomes positive with respect the terminal B.
• This makes the diode forward biased and hence output
voltage is equal to input voltage.
• During the negative half-cycle, terminal A is negative
respect the terminal B. Under this condition, the diode
is reverse biased. Therefore, the output voltage across
load is equal to zero.
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•   Average output Voltage of Half
wave rectifier

+0
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•  

• Average load current

Efficiency : It is defined as ratio of dc power available


at the load to the input AC power
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Efficiency=

Efficiency=

Efficiency = =40.6%
 
 

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Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
• It is requires less number of components to
construct
• Simple circuit
Disadvantages
The output power is not satisfactory to make a
general power supply, Hence, it is not suitable for
practical applications and also poor transformer
utilization
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