Wesleyan University – Philippines

Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija

S.Y. 2022 – 2023

LABORATORY
EXPERIMENT 8
In
CIRCUITS 1 (LAB )
Submitted by:

Charles Daryll G. Contridas

Submitted to:

Sir David Parong

Subject teacher
LABORATORY EXPERIMENT 8
MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER
OBJECTIVES:

1. To specify analytically the conditions for maximum power transfer from a de source to a
load.
2. To verify the condition for the maximum power transfer experimentally, indicated in
objective 1.

DATA AND TABLE:

Table 24.1
V 2 RL
RL, R + RL , WT =
( R+ R L )2
ohms ohms
(watts)
0 100 0
10 110 8.26
20 120 13.9
30 130 17.7
40 140 20.4
50 150 22.2
60 160 23.4
70 170 24.2
80 180 24.7
90 190 24.9
100 200 25.0
110 210 24.9
120 220 24.8
130 230 24.6
140 240 24.2 +
150 250 23.9 +
200 300 22.2
400 500 16.0
600 700 12.25
800 900 9.87
 1 000 1 100 8.28
10 000 10 100 0.98
100 000 100 100 0.099

Table 24.2
2
VL V2
RL , R + RL, VL , W= WT =
RL (R+ R L )
ohms ohms volts
(milliwatts) (milliwatts)
0 1 000 9.091 - 100
100 1 100 9.083 825.00 90.91
200 1 200 9.074 411.69 83.33
400 1 400 9.057 205.07 71.43
600 1 600 9.038 136.14 62.50
800 1 800 9.020 101.70 55.56
850 1 850 9.015 95.61 54.05
900 1 900 9.010 90.20 52.63
950 1 950 9.005 85.36 51.28
1 000 2 000 9.000 81.00 50.00
1 100 2 100 8.990 73.47 47.62
1 200 2 200 8.980 67.20 45.45
1 500 2 500 8.947 53.37 40.00
1 700 2 700 8.925 46.86 37.04
2 000 3 000 8.889 39.51 33.33
4 000 5 000 8.571 18.37 20.00
6 000 7 000 8.000 10.67 14.29
8 000 9 000 6.667 5.57 11.11
10 000 11 000 0.000009766 9.54 x 10 -13
9.09

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

 SELF-TEST
 Check your understanding by answering the following questions:

1. The current in a 120-0 Ω resistor is 0.1 A. The power in watts dissipated by the
resistor is W = 1.2 W.
2. The voltage across a resistor is 12 V, and the current in the resistor is 0.05 A. The
power dissipated by the resistor is W = 0.6 W.
3. The voltage across a 220-0 Ω resistor is 16.0 V. The power dissipated in the
resistor is W = 1.16 W.
4. A power supply with an internal resistance of 25 Ω delivers power to a 50-0 Ω
load connected across its terminals. If the voltage delivered by the supply without
load is 15 V, the power dissipated by the load is W = 2.0 W.
5. A power supply with an internal resistance of 25 Ω delivers power to a resistive
load. If the no-load voltage at the output of the supply is 50 V, the maximum
power would be delivered to a load whose resistance RL = 25 Ω.
6. The power delivered by the supply in question 5 is W = 25 W.

 QUESTIONS
1. In your experiment, for what value of RL is there maximum power transfer?
- The value of RL that has a maximum power transfer is the 0 ohms.

2. Do the measurements and computations in Table 24.2 confirm the maximum-

power-transfer law? Discuss any unexpected results.
- Maximum Power Transfer occurs when, the resistive value of the load is equal
to value of the voltage source internal resistance that allows maximum to be
supplied.

3. In Fig. 24.1, how does the voltage across RL vary with RL? The current in RL?
- The voltage across RL varies with RL in a way that it adds 100 ohms every
resistance.

4. In Fig. 24.1, how does WT vary with RL?

 - The maximum power transfer varies with the load resistance according to its
theorem that load resistance, which will get maximum magnitude of power
delivered to it by the source. However, input power from the source depends
on load; if load resistance is increased, overall power decreases in magnitude,
but the percentage of input power transferred to load increases.

5. When is the percentage of power dissipated by the load greatest in the circuit of
Fig. 24.1? (See Table 24.2 and compute W/WT x 100.)
- It is when the resistance is in 190 ohms, the total percentage will be 13.11%.

6. Does maximum power transfer in Fig. 24-1 occur at the same value of RT for
which there is maximum efficiency?
- Yes, the maximum power transfer in Fig. 24-1 occurs at the same value of RT
for which there is maximum efficiency.

CONCLUSION:

The maximum power theorem, also known as the maximum power transfer theorem, is
an important tool for effective system design. When the source and load impedances are
perfectly matched, this theorem states that a maximum of 50% of power can be transferred from
the power source. As a result, RL = RTh is required for maximum power dissipation across the
heap. This means that if the value of load resistance equals the value of source resistance, the
maximum amount of power will be dissipated across the load
DOCUMENTATION:
Step 1

Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5

Step 6

Step 7
 WATTS VERSUS LOAD RESISTANCE
900

800

700

600
WATTS

500

400

300

200

100

0
0 100 200 400 600 800 850 900 950 1 000 1 100 1 200 1 500 1 700 2 000 4 000 6 000 8 000 10
000

LOAD RESISTANCE

Step 8

MAXIMU POWER TRANSFER VERSUS

LOAD RESISTANCE
MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER

120

100

80

60

40

20

0
0 100 200 400 600 800 850 900 950 1 000 1 100 1 200 1 500 1 700 2 000 4 000 6 000 8 000 10
000

LOAD RESISTANCE