ALTERNATING CURRENT - NCATT

Operation - Half-Wave Rectifier• The output voltage of the half-wave rectifier is in theform of pulses• In a half-wave rectifier, we get one pulse of outputvoltage for every cycle of input AC; this means that thefrequency of the output is the same as the input• The output frequency of a rectifier is given in Pulsesper-Second(PPS); we call it the ripple frequency(here, the input frequency is 60Hz, and the ripplefrequency is 60PPS)AC INPUT60 Hz200 VACCR1200 VAC (EFF)OR 282V PEAKRL+282V0V–282VAC INPUTPEAKVOLTAGE = +282VAVERAGEVOLTAGE = +90V0V