No.

_____________________________ PRELIM July 26, 2018

ECE 003 - _____________ HW 1 Engr. Laguna

FAQ:
i. Use 3 decimal places on the final answer whenever necessary.
ii. Use a separate sheet if needed. Write its corresponding number and be organized.
iii. Box the final answer and include the correct unit.
iv. Corresponding points are enclosed by brackets [].

Questions:[20]
1. Determine the thermal voltage at 25oC(ambient temperature).
2. What is the knee voltage of a Si diode at 70oC?
3. At 20oC, the reverse saturation current of a silicon diode is 10nA, what is the value
when the temperature increases to 120oC?
4. A Si diode is in series with 1kΩ resistor and a forward biasing voltage supply of 10V.
If r’d = 10Ω, what is VAK?
5. A zener diode has ZZT = 4.5Ω, VZT = 6.8V, IZT = 37mA, & IZK = 1mA. Find the zener
voltage when the current is 25mA? 60mA?
6. PMAX = 1W, VZ = 6.1V, IZT = 49mA, IZK = 1mA, ZZ = 8Ω @ IZT. Determine the minimum
and maximum voltage that can be regulated by the zener diode with a series limiting
R of 100Ω.
7. A 9.1V zener diode (25oC) has a PTC of 0.06%/oC. Find VZ at 65oC.
8. A certain zener diode has a maximum rating of 0.35W at 60 oC and DF = 3.5mW/oC.
Find the maximum power dissipation at 85oC.
9. What is the ripple factor of a sinusoidal signal having peak ripple of 2V on an average
of 50V?
10. A filter circuit provides an output of 28V unloaded and 25V under full-load operation.
Find the percent voltage regulation.
11. A half-wave rectifier drops 20V dc. What is the value of the ripple voltage?
12. What is the rms ripple voltage of a full-wave rectifier with output voltage of 8V dc.
13. A simple capacitor filter fed by a full-wave rectifier develops 14.5V dc at 8.5% ripple
factor. What is the output ripple voltage (rms)?
14. A full-wave rectified signal of 18V peak is fed into a capacitor filter. What is the
voltage regulation of the filter if the output is 17V dc at full load?
15. A full-wave rectified voltage of 18V peak is connected to a 400uF filter capacitor.
What are the ripple and dc voltages across the capacitor at a load of 100mA?
16. A full-wave rectifier (from 60Hz supply) produces a 20V peak rectified voltage. If a
200uF capacitor is used, calculate the ripple at a load of 120mA.
17. A full-wave rectifier (from 60Hz supply) drives a capacitor-filter circuit (100uF),
which develops 12V dc when connected to a 2.5kΩ load. Find the output voltage
ripple.
18. Calculate the size of the filter capacitor needed to obtain a filtered voltage with 15%
ripple at load of 150mA. The full-wave rectified voltage is 24V dc from a 60Hz supply.
19. A 500uF capacitor provides a load current of 200mA at 8% ripple. Calculate the peak
rectified voltage obtained from the 60Hz supply and the dc voltage across the filter
capacitor
20. Calculate the size of the filter capacitor needed to obtain a filtered voltage with 7%
ripple at a load of 200mA. The full-wave rectified voltage is 30V dc from 60Hz supply.
No. _____________________________ PRELIM July 26, 2018
ECE 003 - _____________ GW 1 Engr. Laguna

FAQ:
i. Use 3 decimal places on the final answer whenever necessary.
ii. Use a separate sheet if needed. Write its corresponding number and be organized.
iii. Box the final answer and include the correct unit.
iv. Corresponding points are enclosed by brackets [].

Questions: [35]
1. [8] Complete the Power Supply block diagram below together with its corresponding waveforms.

AC Load

2. [1] Calculate the surge resistance required to limit the forward surge current to 1A for a
110Vrms input bridge type rectifier having a transformer with Np/Ns of 10.
3. [4] Given Fig. A and values of 2.7kΩ, 50uF, n = 10, find Vr(pp), Vr(rms), Vdc, and %r.

4. [1] The open output voltage of a regulator is 12V while 11V when loaded. Find % Reg.?
5. [2] Fig. B have Vin = 20V, ß = 60, R1 = 220Ω , R2 = 1kΩ, Vz = 15V. Find Vout and Iz.
6. [1] Fig. C have values similar to question 5 with the addition of R3 = 2kΩ, what is Vout?
7. [1] Find the regulated voltage for an IC voltage regulator with R1 = 120Ω and R2 = 1.2kΩ
8. [3] Compare Linear and Switching Regulators.
9. [4] Draw and label the four possible Voltage Multiplier Circuits.

10. [10] Draw and label the block diagram of a series and shunt regulator.