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Low voltage at an outlet, or excessive voltage drop, can cause a number of fault conditions in the home wiring system. An appliance or piece of equipment can suffer erratic operation, non-operation or permanent interior damage to the circuit of the appliance with low voltage. Low voltage can cause an efficiency drop, leading to wasted energy. Low voltage can be the sign of high resistance in the circuit, branch wiring, or at the switch or outlet location. High amperage and resistance and defective or poor insulation can cause fires. Any home owner can repair low voltage at an outlet by using precaution and some basic tools and steps.
Suppose you suspected a failed-open diode in this power supply circuit. Describe how you could detect its presence without using an oscilloscope: Low-voltage AC power supply 6 6 12--Rectifier assembly Filter capacitor Incidentally, the âlow voltage AC power supplyâ is nothing more than a step-down transformer with a center-tapped secondary winding. ï¬le 00794 Question 16 A student learns that a rectiï¬er circuit is often followed by a low-pass ï¬lter circuit in an AC-DC power supply to reduce ârippleâ voltage on the output. to build this power supply circuit complete with a low-pass ï¬lter at the output: While this design will work, there are better ï¬lter conï¬gurations for this application. limitations of the circuit shown, and explain how some of the other ï¬lters would do a better job.