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    Half Wave Ractifier

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    A half wave rectifier only allows one half of the AC input cycle to pass through the circuit by using a diode. During the positive half cycle, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing current to flow. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reverse biased and does not conduct. This results in a pulsing DC output with ripples. The ripple factor, efficiency, and output voltage of a half wave rectifier are lower than more complex rectifier circuits due to only using one half of the AC cycle. However, half wave rectifiers are simple and inexpensive to implement.

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    Half Wave Ractifier

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    A half wave rectifier only allows one half of the AC input cycle to pass through the circuit by using a diode. During the positive half cycle, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing current to flow. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reverse biased and does not conduct. This results in a pulsing DC output with ripples. The ripple factor, efficiency, and output voltage of a half wave rectifier are lower than more complex rectifier circuits due to only using one half of the AC cycle. However, half wave rectifiers are simple and inexpensive to implement.

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    A half wave rectifier only allows one half of the AC input cycle to pass through the circuit by using a diode. During the positive half cycle, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing current to flow. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reverse biased and does not conduct. This results in a pulsing DC output with ripples. The ripple factor, efficiency, and output voltage of a half wave rectifier are lower than more complex rectifier circuits due to only using one half of the AC cycle. However, half wave rectifiers are simple and inexpensive to implement.

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    Half Wave Ractifier

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    A half wave rectifier only allows one half of the AC input cycle to pass through the circuit by using a diode. During the positive half cycle, the diode is forward biased and conducts, allowing current to flow. During the negative half cycle, the diode is reverse biased and does not conduct. This results in a pulsing DC output with ripples. The ripple factor, efficiency, and output voltage of a half wave rectifier are lower than more complex rectifier circuits due to only using one half of the AC cycle. However, half wave rectifiers are simple and inexpensive to implement.

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    What is Half Wave Rectifier?

    In a half-wave rectifier, one half of each a.c input cycle is rectified. When the p-n junction diode is forward
    biased, it gives little resistance and when it is reversing biased it provides high resistance. During one-half
    cycles, the diode is forward biased when the input voltage is applied and in the opposite half cycle, it is reverse
    biased. During alternate half cycles, the optimum result can be obtained.

    Working of Half Wave Rectifier


    The half wave rectifier has both positive and negative cycles. During the positive half of the input, the current
    will flow from positive to negative which will generate only positive half cycle of the a.c supply. When a.c
    supply is applied to the transformer, the voltage will be decreasing at the secondary winding of the diode. All the
    variations in the a.c supply will reduce and we will get the pulsating d.c voltage to the load resistor.

    In the second half cycle, current will flow from negative to positive and the diode will be reverse biased. Thus,
    at the output side, there will be no current generated and we cannot get power at the load resistance. A small
    amount of reverse current will flow during reverse bias due to minority carriers.

    Characteristics of Half Wave Rectifier


    Following are the characteristics of half wave rectifier:

    Ripple Factor
    Ripples are the oscillations that are obtained in the DC which is corrected by using filters such as inductors and
    capacitors. These ripples are measured with the help of ripple factor and is denoted by γ. Ripple factor tells us
    the amount of ripples present in the output DC. Higher the ripple factor, more is the oscillation at the output DC
    and lower is the ripple factor, less is the oscillation at the output DC.
    Ripple factor is the ratio of rms value of AC component of output voltage to the DC component of the output
    voltage.
    γ=(VrmsVDC)2−1−−−−−−−−−√

    DC Current
    DC current is given as:

    IDC=Imaxπ

    Where,

     Imax is the maximum DC load current

    DC Output Voltage
    The output DC voltage appears at the load resistor RL which is obtained by multiplying output DC voltage with
    the load resistor RL. The output DC voltage is given as:

    VDC=VSmaxπ

    Where,

     VSmax is the maximum secondary voltage

    Form Factor
    Form factor is the ratio of rms value to the DC value. For a half wave rectifier form factor is 1.57.

    Rectifier Efficiency
    Rectifier efficiency is the ratio of output DC power to the input AC power. For a half wave rectifier, rectifier
    efficiency is 40.6%.

    Advantages of Half Wave Rectifier


     Affordable
     Simple connections
     Easy to use as the connections are simple
     Number of components used are less

    Disadvantages of Half Wave Rectifier


     Ripple production is more
     Harmonics are generated
     Utilization of transformer is very low
     Efficiency of rectification is low

    Applications of Half Wave Rectifier


    Following are the uses of half wave rectification:

     Power rectification: Half wave rectifier is used along with transformer for power rectification as a
    powering equipment.
     Signal demodulation: Half wave rectifiers are used for demodulating the AM signals.
     Signal peak detector: Half wave rectifier is used for detecting the peak of the incoming waveform.

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