Q. In a single phase full wave ac regulator the rms value of load current is 20 A load is purely resistive. Then

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Q. A reactor is used in a dual converter operating in non-circulating current mode.

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Q. In a 3 phase full wave regulator feeding resistance load connected in star, the possible range of firing angle α is

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Q. Assertion (A): A dual converter may be circulating current type or non circulating current type.

Reason (R): In circulating current dual converter only one converter can be operated at one time.

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Q. Current chopping leads to

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Q. A 3 phase bridge inverter is fed by 400 V battery. The load is star connected and has a resistance of 10 Ω per phase. The peak value of load current is

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Q. In an SCR, the anode current is controlled by

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Q. The rated current of a thyristor is 40 A. The holding current will be about :

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Q. A cycloconverter is

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Q. The number of leads in a power semiconductor diode are

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Q. If ton and toff are the turn on and turn off times of a thyristor, then

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Q. Assertion (A): The gate current of an SCR is always in the form of pulses.

Reason (R): The gate losses, in pulse triggering, are low.

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Q. The average load current supplied by a thyristor depends on

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Q. In a 3 phase full wave regulator feeding a star connected resistance load the input voltage is 400 V line to line. The firing angle is 160°. The line to line output voltage would be

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Q. A thyristor is reverse biased. A positive gate pulse is applied. The thyristor

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Q. A single phase series converter is used for

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Q. Which of these commutation methods uses an auxiliary SCR?

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Q. In integral cycle control the period of on-off control should be more than mechanical time constant of load.

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Q. A single phase half wave converter is feeding a resistive load. Just before triggering, the voltage across thyristor is

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Q. UJT can be used for

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