Item No.: CO4204-5R

Course Electronics 7: Analog power supplies

Includes:

  • 1 Experiment card with half-wave and bridge rectifiers plus load circuit
  • 1 Experiment card with voltage multiplier in Villard cascade circuit
  • 1 Experiment card with transistor voltage regulator and load circuit
  • 1 Experiment card with fixed-voltage regulator and load circuit
  • Storage case
  • Labsoft browser and course software

Course contents:

  • Introduction to design and function of half-wave and bridge rectifiers
  • List of parameters for rectifier circuits (mean and rms values, form factor and ripple)
  • Introduction to common circuits for smoothing the output voltage from rectifiers
  • Determining the characteristics of half-wave (and bridge) rectifiers with a resistive load by measurement
  • Determining the characteristics of half-wave (and bridge) rectifiers with smoothing by measurement
  • Investigation by measurement of a loaded and unloaded voltage multiplier circuit
  • Measuring the load dependency of the ripple
  • Introduction to the design and function of transistor voltage regulators (Darlington transistors)
  • Measuring the adjustment range of unloaded transistor voltage regulators
  • Investigating the load response of transistor voltage regulators
  • Explanation of the functioning of fixed-voltage regulators with series-type control transistor
  • Explanation of the functioning of a shunt-type transistor as controller for adjustable voltage
  • Investigation of static and dynamic control quality of transistor voltage regulators by measurement
  • Fault simulation (9 simulated faults activated by relay)
  • Course duration 5.5 h approx. (fault finding 1.5 h approx.)