1. ,In a 3 phase full converter, the firing angle is less than 60 decrees.

The instantaneous output

voltage
Answer, will have positive part only

2. ,In a stud mounted SCR, the stud is
Answer,in electrical and thermal contact with heat sink

3. ,In a full bridge inverter, the waveshape of load current depends on
Answer,relative values of load parameters R, L and C

4. ,The characteristics of which device has peak point and valley point
Answer, P-U-T

5. ,In an ordinary thyristor
Answer, turn off time is more than turn on time

6. ,Thyristors connected in series need
Answer, both static and dynamic equalizing circuits


7. ,If 4 quadrant operation is required we need ,
Answer, dual converter

8. ,A single phase half wave converter is feeding a resistive load. Output dc power is Pdc
and total power delivered to load is Pac then ,
Answer, Pdc is less than Pac if firing angle is less than 180 degrees

9. ,Which device exhibit negative resistance characteristics? ,
Answer, U-J-T and P-U-T

10. ,In integral cycle control of ac regulators, the period of integral cycle control, in example m plus
n times T ,
Answer, should be less than mechanical or thermal time constant of the system

11. ,All other parameters remaining the same, a 3 phase bridge inverter with 180 degree mode of
operation
Answer, has higher peak thyristor current than in 1200 mode of operation

12. ,As compared to BJT, MOSFET has
Answer, lower switching losses and higher conduction losses

13. ,If a step down chopper is fed by a dc voltage V with Ton and Toff are on and off periods then is
Answer, average output voltage

14. ,In the basic series inverter circuit, the source supplies load
Answer, only in positive half cycle

15. ,In load commutated chopper, the commutating element
Answer, is capacitor

16. ,In a half bridge inverter each thyristor is gated at a frequency f. The output frequency is
Answer, F


17. ,(A): A transistor has lower voltage drop during conduction as compared to thyristor
(R): Transistors are manufactured in very high voltage and current ratings.
Answer, A is correct but R is wrong

18. ,In a parallel inverter each thyristor is turned on twice during
Answer, each cycle

19. ,Multiphase choppers are used in
Answer, high power circuit

20. ,(A): Typical value of thermal resistance from source to sink of an SCA is about 0.30
(R): Heat sinks of thyristors are generally made of aluminum.
Answer, Both A and R correct but R is not correct explanation of A

21. ,In a single phase converter using a centre tapped transformer and with
a highly inductive load, the firing angles is a. Each thyristor conducts for a period
Answer, P

22. ,A step up chopper can give an output voltage
Answer, higher than input voltage

23. ,The specified maximum junction temperature of thyristors is about
Answer, 120 degrees Celsius

24. ,A bridge type single phase cycloconverter changes the frequency f to f/3. Then one half
wave of output contains
Answer, 3 half waves of input

25. ,A half bridge inverter
Answer, needs a 3 wire dc supply

26. ,A 3 phase series inverter has
Answer, 6 thyristors

27. ,Which device has metal-silicon junction?
Answer, Schottky diode,

28. ,A dc chopper is feeding an RLE load. The condition for maximum ripple is
Answer, A equal to 1,


29. ,In a series inverter ,
Answer, the commutating elements L and C are in series with load,

30. ,When a power diode is conducting, the voltage drop across it is about ,
Answer, 1 Volt

31. ,In thermal ohm's law, temperature and power loss are analogous to ,
Answer, current and Volt respectively of ohm's law

32. ,A string of series connected thyristors needs equalising circuit to ,
Answer, ensure proper voltage division

33. ,A surge voltage has ,
Answer, very high magnitude and very small duration and can be positive or negative

34. ,The minimum gate current which can turn on SCR is called ,
Answer, trigger current

35. ,The total number of leads in SUS, SBS and SCS respectively are ,
Answer, 3, 3 and 4

36. ,Which device can conduct in both directions? ,
Answer, SBS

37. ,(A): A half wave controlled rectifier has poorer efficiency and higher ripple factor than
a full wave controlled rectifier.
(R): The use of a freewheeling diode in half wave controlled rectifier circuit improves the
waveform of load current and circuit power factor,
Answer, Both A and R correct but R is not correct explanation of A

38. ,A 3 phase dual converter consists of two 3 phase full converters connected in ,
Answer, antiparallel

39. ,Which inverter circuit uses coupled inductors? ,

Answer, Both McMurray Bedford half bridge inverter
and Modified McMurray Bedford half bridge inverter

40. ,When an SCR is in forward blocking mode, the applied voltage ,
Answer, appears across only one junction

41. ,A class D chopper,
Answer,can operate in either first or fourth quadrant ,

42. ,The symbol in figure is for ,
Answer, P-U-T


43. , The efficiency of a chopper circuit is about ,
Answer, 80% or more

44. ,If the frequency is less than the damped frequency in a series- inverter ,
Answer, the distortion of output voltage waveform is high ,

45. ,Mc Murray full bridge inverter uses ,
Answer, 8 thyristors and 4 diodes

46. ,(A): A diac has four layers but only two terminals.
(R): A Diac can conduct in both directions.
Answer, Both A and R correct but R is not correct explanation of A

47. , In a 3 phase full converter, the instantaneous output voltage can have negative part if ,
Answer, firing angle is more than 60 degrees


48. , In a single phase full wave ac regulator using two thyristors only,
the gate circuits of the two thyristors ,
Answer, must be isolated

49. , A fully controlled bridge converter is feeding an RLE load. For some circuit conditions firing angle
is 47 degrees. If connections of battery are reversed, the firing angle is likely to be more than
Answer, 47 degrees.

50. , In a sirigle phase half wave converter feeding resistive load and full wave converter (M - 2
connection) feeding a resistive load the circuit conditions are similar. The firing angle is a.
Then the waveshapes of voltages across thyristors
Answer, are similar

51. , In a 3 phase full converter feeding a highly inductive load, the average load current is 150
Ampere.
The peak current through thyristor is ,
Answer, 150 Amps

52. , In a 3 phase full wave regulator feeding a star connected resistance load, firing angle is
75 degrees. Then the number of thyristors conducting at one time is ,
Answer, 2

53. , The main utility of SCR is due to ,
Answer, gate triggering

54. , A single phase half bridge inverter required to feed R-L loads needs ,
Answer, 2 thyristors and two diodes ,

55. , Typical values of for an SCR are in the range of ,
Answer, 25 to 500

56. , When a dc chopper feeds an RLE load, the load current, during steady state operation ,
Answer, varies between maximum and minimum values