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Electrical Mini Project (Partially Complete)
Electrical Mini Project (Partially Complete)
To design RL circuits with a functioning LED light that will have 2 seconds faded
in after the switch is closed.
METHODOLOGY
In this Electrical Technology project, our topic was to design a LED light that will
have a 2 second fade in after the switch is closed using a RL circuit. RL circuit is
basically stands for resistor-inductor circuit. Energy is stored in a magnetic field
in the coil as long as current flows. A simplest form of a LED light
fader circuit can be designed by just connecting a high value inductor across the
LED. In our mini project the circuit is connected as below:
The method in designing this circuit is simple as there are only a few electrical
components that are needed. In this case, the first step that we have taken is to
gather all the electrical components that we are going to use. We are using a 9V
battery, 500 resistor, inductor, push button and also a LED. Then the next step
is that we start designing on how the circuit should be like, which is simple and
efficient. In order for us to have a 2 seconds fade in after the switch is closed, our
inductor value have to be large, however, since the shop that we went ran out of
stock, thus the value for our inductor does not reach up to 1.0 kH. But even so,
we managed to design the circuit as simple as possible and it does not cost us
enough money as well. Since the circuit is very basic, thus it cannot produce an
effective rise and decay of the LED light. Here, on applying the voltage, the
inductor charges almost instantly and the LED also lights up immediately. Thus,
the slow rise in the intensity of the LED cannot be identified. However, when the
supply is switched off, the LED extinguishes slowly due to the stored charge
inside the inductor. So the effect is only one sided and also not very efficient as
the required inductor is of a very large value which is 1.0 kH.
RESULTS
Calculation for circuit
Z = RXL /
XL
=2fL
= 2 (50) (0.85)
= 267.04
= (500 ) (267.04) /
(500) 2 + (267.04)
= 235.55
I
= Vs/Z
= 9/ 235.55
= 0.0382 A
= L/R
= 0.85/ 500
= 1.7 x 10
= IF (1- e
-Rt/L
= (0.0382) (1- e
-3 s
= 0.024
= 3.4 x 10-3 s
= 0.033
= 5.1 x 10-3 s
= 0.036
= 6.8 x 10-3 s
= 0.0375
= 8.5 x 10-3 s
= 0.0379
= 0.0102
= 0.0381
-500(1.7x10^-3)/0.85
Curremt (mA) 20
10
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Time (mS)
CONCLUSION
Inductor as an electrical component contains some amount of resistance which
affects or resists the current flowing through it, this is absolutely true but for our
case we made an assumption that the inductor is ideal and offer no resistance to
the flowing current.so we considered our coil to be inductive so the one which
will provide the resistance is the resistor which will be connected in series with
the inductor forming the RL circuit. The RL circuit consists of an inductor of
inductance L and resistance of resistor R connected in series. Our design
involved simple components of electric circuits which are battery (source),
connecting wires, LED, inductor, resistor and switch. Therefore the RL circuit is
the electric circuit composed of inductor and a resistor driven by voltage or
current source. The circuit that we have designed in our project consists of only
one inductor one resistor which is the simplest form of circuit.
REFERENCES
Wikipedia,
(2009),
RL
circuit,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RL_circuit
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