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Power supplies with capacitive input filters have the following characteristics:

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Behavior of a capacitor-input filter in a rectifier power supply • Difference between voltage regulation that is good vs. poor as load current changes • Impact of capacitor charging on rectifier peak current and transformer utilization

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• When a capacitor is placed directly after a rectifier, at what point in the AC cycle does it actually draw current, and how does that affect the peak current through the rectifier? • If the capacitor charges up near the peak of the waveform, what happens to the DC output voltage as the load increases—does it stay nearly constant or does it sag noticeably? • How efficiently is the transformer used if current only flows during short intervals of the AC cycle instead of more continuously?

✅ Before You Answer

• Compare which choices describe high vs. low rectifier peak currents, and ask which better matches a capacitor charging only near the AC peaks. • Identify which choices claim good versus poor voltage regulation, and think about how much the output of a capacitor-input filter drops under heavier load. • Consider whether current flowing in short, high-amplitude pulses would lead to a high or low transformer utilization factor.

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Question 1 of 20

Power supplies with capacitive input filters have the following characteristics:

Relatively high output voltage with low rectifier peak currents.

High transformer utilization factor with good voltage regulation.

Poor voltage regulation and high rectifier peak currents.

Good voltage regulation with high transformer utilization factor.

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Power supplies with capacitive input filters have the following characteristics:

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Power supplies with capacitive input filters have the following characteristics:

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