Understanding The
Purpose Of Some Electronic Components In Electronic
Circuits.
An electronic
circuit consist of few or lots of electronic components for it to
function properly. The electronic circuits such as the power
supply, vertical, horizontal, high voltage, scanner, audio, color,
memory, inverter, converter, feedback and etc are the circuits that
forms the purpose of electronic equipment. In other words,
different electronic equipment have different task because it has
different types of electronic circuits in it. This month article is
about to reveal the purpose of some electronic components in those
electronic circuits. Let’s begin and analyse those
components.
Relay
If you have repair
electronic equipment before, I believe you have definitely seen a
relay in electronic circuits. Sometimes in a circuit can have more
than few relays. A relay is basically a switch operated by magnetic
force. This magnetic force is generated by flow of current through
a coil in the relay. The function of a relay is to open or close a
circuit, when current through the coil is started or stopped. Now,
the question is why there is a diode located parallel to the coil
in the relay as seen from the schematic below?
The diagram shows how a signal diode (eg
1N4148) is connected across the relay coil to provide
this protection.
Current flowing
through a relay coil creates a magnetic field which collapses
suddenly when the current is switched off. The sudden collapse of
the magnetic field induces a brief high voltage ‘spikes’ across the
relay coil which is very likely to damage ICs and Transistors. The
diode which is also called as protection diode allows the induced
voltage to drive a brief current through the coil (and diode) so
the magnetic field dies away quickly rather than instantly. This
prevents the induced voltage becoming high enough to cause damage
to ICs and transistors.
Damper
Diode
Whenever I draw the
diagram of the high voltage circuit of a Monitor, many times my
students asked what was the function of the damper diode connected
across collector and emitter pin of horizontal output transistor
(HOT). For your information the damper diode can be found built
into the HOT or in the circuit. Because of the high inductance and
interwinding capacitance of the yoke and flyback transformer, the
circuit must be damped out during retrace to prevent ringing. In
other word, the damper is used to prevent oscillation in electronic
circuit.
Note: Ringing means
unwanted oscillation of a signal.
Zener Diode In
FET
You may wonder why
there is a zener diode connected internally between the drain and
the source pin. Mosfets are really sensitive to overvoltage (large
voltage spikes) conditions so, to prevent reactive load spikes from
destroying your MOSFET (when it switched off) a zener diode is
commonly added across the source to drain.
Note: For your
information, in some electronic circuit, the zener diode can be
connected externally.
RCD Clamp
Network
RCD means resistor,
capacitor and diode. If you have seen a power supply schematic
before, I’m sure you had came across such components that are
located besides the primary winding as seen from the schematic
diagram below. The function of these circuit (or components) is
more or less the same like the damper diode. Whenever the power FET
turns off, the leakage inductance of the transformer induces a
voltage spike on the drain node. In order to protect the power FET
against (inductive) spikes from the transformer primary and to
reduce ringing, components R1, C3 and D1 are placed in the circuit.
The amplitude of the spike can now be limited by this
circuit.
Conclusion- Of
course there are lots more of electronic circuits in the market and
there is no way I can reveal all of them. May be you can take this
article as a guide to help you to find out the purpose of those
electronic components that found in your type of electronic
equipment that you are working on.
The advantage of
knowing such components in those circuits is that when you want to
design electronic circuits, at least you will know what type of
components you should put in that circuit. Even if you are not
designing any electronic circuits, at least you know the function
of those components in the electronic circuits. All right, that’s
all for this month and see you again next month.
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