# Bridge Rectifier Average Voltage

Discussion in 'Homework Help' started by jegues, Apr 21, 2011.

1. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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See figure attached.

Okay I can see how these circuit acts like two full wave rectifiers in one and I was also able to reproduce the plot shown.

The part I get confused about is how he simplifies the integral when he is solving the average voltage.

I didn't simplify anything and worked out the integral and got stuck because I don't have theta.

How is he preforming this simplification, he indicates that Vs>>0.7 but I don't see how that reduces to what he's got.

Can someone clarify?

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2. ### mik3 Senior Member

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Instead of using ωt, he uses θ.

Are you confused how he found θ at the end?

3. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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I am confused as to how he evaluated his integral, he makes an assumption and it simplifies to $\frac{2Vs}{\pi} - 0.7$

How does he make that simplification? How does the integral come out to be that?

4. ### mik3 Senior Member

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If you assume that the integral is evaluated from 0 to π and assume that the peak value of the sine wave is Vs-0.7. However, I find that the answer is $\frac{2Vs}{pi}-1.4$

5. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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So the limits on his integral are suppose to be from 0 to $\pi$?

6. ### mik3 Senior Member

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If you assume that Vs is much greater than 0.7 you will get a good approximation of Vavg.

7. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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I'm trying to figure out how he went from the line with the integral to the line directly below it.

I can see that he assumed Vs >> 0.7 but that doesn't make it clear to me how that results in,

$\frac{2V_{s}}{\pi} - 0.7 = 15$

Can you clarify that portion of the mathematics or trickery or whatever he seems to be doing?

8. ### mik3 Senior Member

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Solve the integral as he does in the example but with the limits 0 and π.

I found that this is: $\frac{2Vs}{pi}-1.4$

9. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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Here's my shot at it.

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10. ### mik3 Senior Member

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Your method is right but you have to divide by π and not by 2π. If you do this you will get the right answer. My answer was wrong because of a stupid mistake!

11. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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So is his original integral incorrect? It should be a $\frac{1}{\pi}$ on the outside of the integral?

12. ### mik3 Senior Member

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Yes, because you integrate over half of the period.

13. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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Why only half the peroid for the average voltage?

I think you should be able to use the full peroid and still obtain the correct result.

If you use half the peroid and calculate the average voltage it should be the same as if you where to do the integral over the full period right?

I'm just trying to understand how he got the integral, the constant outside the integrand and the limits on the integrand.

From the picture, it doesn't like as though Vo is nonzero from 0 to pi, its looks more like it is nonzero from θ to (π - θ) so why aren't we integrating with those limits?

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14. ### jegues Thread Starter Well-Known Member

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The average voltage is really like this read line passing through the output, correct?

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15. ### cokaznsyco72 New Member

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Is the function inside the integral correct?
It seems to me that by using that function, you would include some of the negative voltage that the rectifier should have gotten rid of. For example, when theta is equal to zero, Vsin(theta) - 0.7 = 0 - 0.7 = -0.7.
Is this integral a true average of the rectified signal?