AC TRIGGERING OF AN SCR

Experiment V

Group No. 1 DOP:30/09/2020

Section:59016 Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am Day: Wednesday Room______
Name: Tabag, Trishia Marie M. Signature_______________
Instructor: Engr. Alain Bernard C. Ranola, PECE

DATA SHEET:

Table 6.1: Trigger time ≈ 0° to 90°

Firing
Delay 0 30 45 60 75 90
Angle
RG Setting 0% 18% 45% 60% 69% 75%
(kΩ)

GRAPHS:

Voltage waveform across the SCR

 Voltage waveform across the load resistor

Table 6.2: Trigger time ≈ 0° to 180°

Firing
Delay 10 30 45 60 75 90 100 120 140 150 160 170 180
Angle
RG Setting 0 2% 3% 4% 5% 7% 9% 11% 14% 16% 18% 20% 21%
(kΩ)

GRAPHS:

Voltage waveform across the SCR

Voltage waveform across the load resistor

FILL-IN QUESTIONS:

1. Using only a potentiometer, the ac trigger tine of an SCR can be varied from about 0 to 90
degrees.

2. Using a potentiometer and capacitor, the ac trigger time of an SCR can be varied from
about 0 to 180 degrees.

3. When the SCR conducts, the voltage across RL is about equal to the voltage source.

4. When the SCR conducts, the voltage across its A-K terminals is about 0.7 V.

5. The voltage across RL when the SCR conducts is the result of load current times load
resistance.

ANALYSIS OF RESULTS:

As soon as gate is fired, both conditions for turning on of thyristor are fulfilled and it gets
turned on and current starts flowing in circuit. If firing angle is 45 degrees, then up until 45 degrees
of the input sine wave it won't conduct, after that it'll conduct till the cycle completes (or till the
next current zero), and this is repeated again and again.

Varying this angle, alpha as it is generally put, changes the effective rms values of V and I and
hence the power. The lower the firing angle, higher is the power transferred to the load and vice
versa.
QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS:

1. Which condition would cause the larger load current, a firing delay angle of 35° or a firing
delay angle of 60°?

A firing delay of angle 35 degrees would cause a larger load current ,it is because the larger
the value of α, the smaller is the load current .As the firing angle increase the load current
decrease.

2. If the conduction angle of an SCR is 90° and it is desired to double the average load current,
calculate the new conduction angle for a 60 Hz ac supply.

In order to double the average load current ,the conduction angle should be decreased.
Decreasing it will double the power on the load that also means the current is double.

3. For figure 6.1, assume the supply is 12 Vrms, IGT = 10 mA, and RA = 1 kΩ. The firing
angle is desired to be 90°. To what value should R2 be adjusted?

SOLUTION:
Vrms=12 RA = 1kΩ
Igt = 10mA Delay angle = 90
1.97 = 100Ig -1kΩ Ig –R2 Ig -0.7 = 0

16.97−100(10 𝑚𝐴)−12(10𝑚𝐴)−0.7
R2 = 10𝑚𝐴

R2 = 527Ω

4. In figure 6.1, if the resistance of the load is 100Ω and the supply is 12 Vrms, how much power
burned in the SCR when the firing delay angle is 0°? When the SCR is turned ON the voltage
across is 1.0 V.

If the firing angle α = 0°, then full positive half-cycle will appear across the load RL and almost
all the power on the source is dissipated to the load and the SCR. When the voltage across the scr
is equal to 1v the power burn by the SCR is only 8.3333 and the remaining power is dissipated on
the load.
5. In figure 6.1, the supply is 115 Vrms, 60 Hz. The SCR has a triggering gate current of 35mA;
RA = 1 kΩ; what value of RG will cause a firing delay angle of 90°?

SOLUTION:
V= 115(√2 ) sin 90
V = 162.63V
𝑉−𝐼𝑔𝑅𝑙−𝑅𝑎𝐼𝑔−𝑉𝑔𝑟
RG = 𝐼𝐺
162.93−𝐼𝑔(100)−(1kΩ)𝐼𝑔−0.7
RG = 𝐼𝐺
162.93−35𝑚𝐴 (100)−(1kΩ)35𝑚𝐴−0.7
RG = 35𝑚𝐴

Rg =3256.57 Ω