Hello, good morning/afternoon/night/everythingelese,
I have the following circuit and some questions to answer about its functioning but I'm not exactly sure I'm right about what I thought.
What we had to do, is connect the circuit accordingly and see what happens.
We've seen that the neon light lit up when we opened the switch (but didn't when we closed it). But I don'n know is why this happens.
My theory (after reserching) is that when we close the switch, the inductor generates a tension that goes against the diode and that's why it doesn't light up. Then, when we open the switch, the direction of the tension goes the other way allowing the neon to light up.
However, then, we had to reverse the direction of the diode (to reverse-biased), we could observe that the neon worked the same way, only that its light was brighter. I have no clue as to why this happens. My guess is that it's related to the functioning of the neon light (the thing is that I haven't completely understood how it works).
I know this is a lot, but any kind of help or explaining could help, even providing some links for me to research would be great.
I want to clarify my native language is Spanish so I apologice in advanced for any mistakes and I'm new to the page so I hope I put this in the right place.
Thank you all.
I have the following circuit and some questions to answer about its functioning but I'm not exactly sure I'm right about what I thought.
What we had to do, is connect the circuit accordingly and see what happens.
We've seen that the neon light lit up when we opened the switch (but didn't when we closed it). But I don'n know is why this happens.
My theory (after reserching) is that when we close the switch, the inductor generates a tension that goes against the diode and that's why it doesn't light up. Then, when we open the switch, the direction of the tension goes the other way allowing the neon to light up.
However, then, we had to reverse the direction of the diode (to reverse-biased), we could observe that the neon worked the same way, only that its light was brighter. I have no clue as to why this happens. My guess is that it's related to the functioning of the neon light (the thing is that I haven't completely understood how it works).
I know this is a lot, but any kind of help or explaining could help, even providing some links for me to research would be great.
I want to clarify my native language is Spanish so I apologice in advanced for any mistakes and I'm new to the page so I hope I put this in the right place.
Thank you all.
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