ELEC3106

Electronics

Lab 5: Wireless power transfer session 1, 2016

Objective
The objective of this laboratory session is to give the students experience with a small open-ended
design problem in which they can benefit from the knowledge gained throughout the course.

Components
For this laboratory exercise, you will need
2 Bread-boards
Resistors
Capacitors
Diodes
Wires
lab-book

Requirements
In this laboratory exercise, you need to, in pairs of two students, design and characterise a wire-
less power transfer system. The system must consist of a Transmitter located on one bread-board
and a Receiver located on a different bread-board. There must be no connections between the
boards and the boards need to be separated by a distance, d of at least 5 mm. As shown in Fig-
ure 1, you can use the laboratory signal generator (the Source) to drive your Transmitter circuit;
no bench power supply will be needed. It is required that a capacitor is connected in series with
the Source input on your Transmitter. The Receiver need to generate a DC output voltage, VO .
It is required that VO 3 V while driving a load resistance RL 1 k. Other than these, there
are no requirements to the design; but you may want to consider how to make a circuit that ex-
ceed the requirements higher output voltage or output power is better, smaller circuit volume
is better, larger Transmitter-Receiver distance is better, smaller input voltage is better, smaller
output voltage ripple is better, etc.

Pre-lab work
It is essential that you do your circuit design before your laboratory class: there will only be
enough time during the class to measure and optimise your circuit, not design it. You need
to complete your circuit schematic including initial component values in preparation for
your class; it is probably a good idea to also assemble the circuit on your bread-board before
the class. You will likely need to do some experimentation in the lab to implement a good
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solution, so be prepared for that. Think about the requirements. How do you get power across
the Transmitter-Receiver gap? What should the Source frequency be? How do you maximise the
circuit performance?

Measurements
In your laboratory session, carry out the measurements in this section in pairs of two students to
characterise your circuit. Make sure that you show your result to the laboratory demonstrator,
and that both of you record everything neatly in your lab-book. The Lab signal generator has an
output resistance of 50 , while the CRO input resistance is 1 M; thus you need to explicitly
load your circuit with a suitable load resistance. Your test set-up should therefore look somewhat
like what is shown below:

Source Transmitter Receiver CRO

50 1M

VS VI VO RL

15pF
d
1M

15pF

Figure 1: Wireless power transfer measurement set-up.

Characterisation
To verify that your circuit meets the specified requirements, your circuit characterise need to
include the following measurements: Given RL = 1 k, what is the longest distance, dmax you can
have while ensuring VO 3 V? Given a distance d = 5 mm, what is the smallest load resistance,
RL,min you can have while ensuring VO 3 V? Given a distance d = 5 mm, and a load resistance
RL = 1 k, what is the smallest input amplitude, VI,min you can have while ensuring VO 3 V?
You should record output voltage ripple and note input amplitude for all measurements. You
may want to do further characterisation. Make sure that you collect suitable evidence of your
characterisation.

Report
A short report (5 pages max) on the laboratory exercise must be prepared and uploaded as a
.pdf-file on the course Moodle side by Friday the week after the lab finishes. The report should
include answers to all questions asked above, and brief comments on the results. It should also
include a brief explanation of your circuit design and reasoning for choice of component values.
Make sure you point out any clever designs ideas you may include. The full schematic of your
circuit must be include in the report, not counting towards the page limit. Submit one report per
two-student group and make sure that both students names and student ID appear clearly on the
report.

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