Two Quadrant Chopper

Two Quadrant Chopper: Sometimes a chopper may be required to provide a two quadrant operation by retaining the current direction in both motoring and braking modes. Such a Two Quadrant…

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Regenerative Braking

Regenerative Braking: Sometimes the energy of the load may have to be fed to the supply system. A Chopper in this mode is called regenerative. The chopper working as a…

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DC Chopper

DC Chopper: DC Chopper are mainly dc to dc single stage conversion devices which provide a variable voltage on the load side when fed from a constant dc voltage source.…

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Four Quadrants Converters

Four Quadrants Converters: Four Quadrants Converters - The converters described in the previous sections are suitable either for one quadrant or two quadrant operation. In the former case stepless speed…

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Two pulse half controlled bridge converter

Two pulse half controlled bridge converter: A Two pulse half controlled bridge converter is obtained by connecting a two pulse controlled midpoint converter in series with an uncontrolled one, as…

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