UniTrain 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
• 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.)