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Power Supplies: Rectifiers, Filters and Regulators
Electricity and Electronics · Chapter 9 · 8. Power Supply for Electronic Apparatus
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- Mains transformer in a power supply; half-wave rectifier: Idc, Irms, rectification efficiency, ripple factor
- Full-wave centre-tap and bridge rectifiers: working, efficiency, ripple factor, advantages and disadvantages
- Voltage doublers
- Filters: RC filter, choke-input filter and pi-section filter; chokes and bleeder resistors
- Zener diode voltage stabiliser; role of the series resistor; numerical problems