Department of Electrical Engineering

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi-110 025

POWER ELECTRONICS LAB

Power Electronics lab is equipped with latest state-of-the-art technology equipment. It offers simple experiments
for understanding the subject and advance facilities to conduct microprocessor, micro-controller and DSP based
projects.

Major facilities available

1. HP make 4 channel digital storage oscilloscope with PC connectivity

2. Meco make Energy Auditor
3. HP make Scopemeter with inbuilt multimeter in digital scope, PC connectivity etc.
4. Voltech make three phase power analyser giving complete details of voltage, current, active-, reactive-
and harmonic power.
5. Interface card to develop C based software for hardware control.
6. Tektronix make portable Techscope
7. ABB make voltage and current sensors for isolated voltage and current sensing.
8. 80196KC micro-controller kits for development of inverter control algorithms
9. HP make Omnibook

List of Experiments
Prerequisite

1. Each student has to individually show a square pulse on CRO without any external input.

HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS

1. Use a 555 timer to generate square wave pules of desired frequency. Verify theoretical frequency with
practical value. Study the effect of variation of supply voltage, biasing resistors and capacitors on the output
wave shape. Discuss your observations and conclusions.

2. Use a UJT to design a relaxation oscillator operating at desired frequency. Verify theoretical frequency with
practical value. Study the effect of variation of supply voltage, biasing resistors and capacitors on the output
wave shape. Discuss your observations and conclusions.

3. Fabricate a single phase half wave diode bridge rectifier and test its performance on no load and load with
capacitor filter and without capacitor filter on resistive, inductive and motor load. Observe voltage waveforms
at different points of the circuit. Discuss your observations and conclusions.

4. Fabricate a single phase full wave diode bridge rectifier and test its performance on no load and load with
capacitor filter and without capacitor filter on resistive, inductive and motor load. Observe voltage waveforms
at different points of the circuit. Discuss your observations and conclusions.
5. Fabricate a 5 or 12 or 15 V regulated power supply and test its performance on no load and load on
resistive, inductive and motor load. Observe voltage waveforms at different points of the circuit. Discuss your
observations and conclusions.

6. Study of Mosfet based chopper circuit operation on R, RL, RLE load. Firing of chopper by hardware and
microprocessor.

7. Study of Transistor based inverter circuit operation. Testing of firing by hardware and microprocessor.

8. Triac based universal motor speed control.

9. Fabrication and study of half- and full-controlled rectifier operation.

SOFTWARE EXPERIMENTS

1. Write a computer program to generate a train of square wave of 5V, 50 Hz for at least 5 cycles.

2. Write a computer program to generate a cosine wave of 5V, 60 Hz for at least 5 cycles.

3. Write a computer program to generate a (a) half wave and (b) full wave diode bridge rectifier output voltage
wave along with input wave of 220V, 50 Hz for at least 5 cycles.

4. Write a computer program to generate three phase voltage wave, for Vrms-220 V, Frequency 50Hz for at
least five cycles.

5. Write a computer program to generate output voltage wave of a three phase diode bridge rectifier for Vrms-
220 V, Frequency 50Hz for at least two cycles.

II Part

1. Write a program to generate data for plotting the following waveforms.

(10 waveform patterns displayed on the lab notice board)
2. Use MS Excel/Grapher/Lotus or any other graphics package to plot the data.
3. Each waveform should have at least five cycles
4. Extend the program to find the average and rms value of the waveform.
5. Further extend the program to find the co-efficients of fourier series expansion. Hence calculate the harmonic
components for n=1 to 20. Plot Cn vs n.
6. Print out of waveform, programme listing and harmonic pattern required for practical record.
Developed by Dr. V.K. Sharma