The experiment 6 deals with the voltage doubler.

This dc voltage doubler circuit produces a voltage that is twice its voltage supply. This is useful when a higher voltage level is needed out of a single lower voltage power supply. A voltage doubler is a voltage multiplier with a multiplication factor of two. The circuit can be implemented with diodes and capacitors or with switched capacitors. The experiment focused on the demonstration of the operation of a voltage doubler using average and peak output voltages. The first part of the experiment discussed the operation of a voltage doubler using an actual circuit. For this part, we used the voltage doubler block in circuit board since it was the main circuit to be used to understand how the voltage doubler acts or functioned. Full wave voltage doubler was used since it uses both half cycles of the incoming AC wave. It operates in such a way as to produce an output voltage that is twice the transformer secondary voltage. Then a frequency of 60 Hz and amplitude of 20V pk-to-pk was set in the function generator. From this, waveforms will be seen on the oscilloscope that will describe the input and output voltage. In our case, we did not able to draw the output waveform since in the manual it was written that input waveform must be drawn. But as we observed the two waveforms on the oscilloscope, which is actually drawn in graph 6-1, the reverse polarity of the diode means it would store a positive and negative polarity as state in the negative polarity adding the two voltages that would result to double voltage from the input to the output. But it would not eventually stop there because the double voltage would change to a DC level. ** table In question a4, since in the voltage doubler, the output will be on a DC level that s why the output of R1, R2 and the circuit output which is across RL, are all on DC level. From this it can be noticed that the frequency measured is almost the same which is 60.54 Hz as what we input before which is 60 Hz. Therefore, in a voltage doubler, it can be said that the frequency of input and output is the same all throughout which can reflect on the answer on question a4. Also, as I observed the voltages across R1 and R2 is equal to the value of RL, which can be proven by observing the circuit. The R1 and R2 are in series with each other and it is parallel to the RL, in which in series, the voltage is sum up and in parallel, voltage are equal. **circuit The output across RL will have a significant amount of ripple as soon as load current is drawn from it, but the peak output voltage will b equal to the peak voltage of the whole transformer secondary. The total output voltage therefore is twice the peak voltage of the secondary, In question a5, we are about to graph the output voltage still on graph 6-1 and compare the waveforms on the graph. From it, the output voltage across RL has been change to twice the peak value of the input voltage but it is converted to a DC level from an AC level. In the next question, it just only proved that the measurement of voltage across RL, which is a dc voltage, using the DMM is equal to the measurement of VRL on question a4, which used the reading on the oscilloscope.

In question a7, we are about to discuss on what happened to the input signal after passing through the voltage. In this question we had a wrong answer. But eventually the correct answer is that the peak input voltage was stored in the capacitor and acts as a battery. And once it acts as a battery, it would add up and after it added up, it should be twice the peak voltage of input voltage. Moreover, it will act as a DC source. The voltage doubler produces a DC voltage twice that of a full wave rectifier. It makes it possible to use a transformer with a lower step up ration than would be needed if an ordinary full wave supply were used. The next part of the experiment focused on the demonstration of the operation of a voltage doubler using circuit simulations.