UNIT-I

THYRISTOR FAMILY, TRIGGER AND COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS

PART- A
1. Define holding current of SCR.
2. Define latching current of SCR.
3. State the application of SCR.
4. Draw the symbol of DIAC and TRIAC.
5. Draw the symbol of SBS.
6. Draw the symbol of SCS and mention the terminals.
7. What is meant by breakdown voltage?
8. What is commutation?
9. What is IGBT?
10. Mention any two application of LASCR.
11. What are the methods used for triggering the SCR?
12. State the basic requirement of a gate triggering circuit.
13. How is SCR turn OFF?
14. What is the use of IC TCA 785?
15. What is class B commutation?

PART -B
1. Draw the circuit diagram and characteristics of SCR and Explain.
2. With the diagram explain the operation of MOSFET.
3. With the diagram explain the principle of operation of TRIAC.
4. Draw the neat circuit diagram to find the characteristics of IGBT and explain.
5. Draw the circuit of synchronized UJT triggering circuit and explain its operation.
6. With a block diagram explain the IC based advanced triggering circuit for SCR &
TRIAC using TCA 785.
7. Explain the concept of Microcontroller based trigger circuit with a block diagram.
8. What is commutation? Explain in detail about class-B and class - D commutation.

UNIT–II
PHASE CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS

PART -A
1. Write the application of phase controller rectifier?
2. Why we need freewheeling diode?
3. What are the various types of configuration used in controlled bridge converters?
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4. Give the expression for power factor of single phase rectifier.
5. State the input power factor of half controller bridge rectifier.
6. What is freewheeling diode?
7. Define safety factor.
8. Define dual converter.
9. Define twelve pulse converters.
10. What are the different methods used for improving power factor in phase
11. What is the use of snubber circuit?

PART- B
1. With a neat diagram explain the operation single phase half controlled bridge
converter with RL load.
2. Explain the operation of single phase fully controlled bridge with RL load using a
neat circuit diagram & wave form.
3. a) With the diagram explain the effect of freewheeling diode.
b) Explain the operation of single phase half controlled bridge converter with
resistive load.
4. Draw and explain the complete protection of thyristor circuit.
5. Explain 3 phase fully controlled bridge rectifier with RL load.
6. With a diagram explain single phase dual converter.
7. With the diagram explain twelve pulse converters.
8. a) With the diagram explain snubber circuit.
b) With the diagram explain the effect of freewheeling diode.

UNIT – III
CHOPPER AND INVERTER

PART -A
1. Give the uses of parallel inverter.
2. List out the types of chopper.
3. State the advantage of PWM.
4. Define inverter.
5. Define chopper.
6. Mention the types of chopper.
7. Define step up chopper.
8. Mention the various types of PWM techniques.
9. What are the various types of UPS?
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10. Mention the application of UPS.
11. Define SMPS.
12. State the disadvange of SMPS.
13. Mention the various types of switching regulator.

PART- B
1. Explain the two types of control strategies for the chopper.
2. Explain JOHES chopper with suitable circuit and waveforms.
3. Explain MORGAN chopper with suitable circuit and waveform.
4. With the diagram explain single phase full bridge inverter.
5. With a neat diagram explain single phase parallel inverter.
6. With the block diagram explain the operation SMPS.
7. Explain completely the modified MC-Murray full bridge inverter.
8. What are the types of UPS? Explain in details.
9. Explain sinusoidal pulse width modulated inverter with suitable circuit.

UNIT–IV
CONTROL OF DC DRIVES

PART- A
1. What is the speed equation of dc motor?
2. Write the application of DC drives.
3. What is called regeneration?
4. What is asymmetrical firing?
5. What is distortion factor?
6. What is displacement factor?
7. What is regeneration?
8. What is PLL?
9. Mention the different type of speed control of DC motor.
10. What are the different methods used for improving power factor in phase
controlled rectifier?
11. Which converter is used for four quadrant control?
12. Mention the type of speed control used in DC motor to get constant hp region.

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 PART- B
1. a) Explain the operation region of armature voltage control and field current
control.
b) Explain separately excited DC motor.
2. Explain three phase full converter drive with waveforms.
3. Explain the schemes of separately exited DC motor speed control.
4. Explain single phase dual converter drive.
5. Explain the operation of four quadrants DC-DC converter drive using MOSFET.
6. Explain the operation of four quadrants DC-DC converter drive using IGBT.
7. With block diagram explain Microprocessor based closed loop control of DC drive.
8. a) With the diagram explain asymmetrical triggering.
b) Explain PLL control of DC drives with block diagram.

UNIT-V
CONTROL OF AC DRIVES

PART A
1. Mention the methods of controlling the speed of AC induction motor.
2. Give the application of AC drives
3. What are the advantages of AC drive?
4. Write the equation of Torque in AC motors.
5. Mention the various types of closed loop control of AC drive.
6. What is cycloconverter?
7. List of two application of AC drives.
8. What is the role of Microcontroller in fault diagnosis?
9. What is the abbreviation of ASIC?
10. What is DSP?
PART-B
1. a) With a neat diagram explain the operation of torque speed characteristics of
three phase induction motor.
b) With the diagram explain the operation of rotor resistance control.
2. Explain with circuit diagram the slip power recovery scheme.
3. Explain various fault diagnosis in three phase converter using micro controller.
4. Explain with circuit of a single to single phase cycloconverter.
5. Explain microcomputer based pulse width modulation control of induction motor
drive.
6. Explain the concept of ASIC’s for motor control applications.
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7. Explain the need for DSP based motor control.