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So, why do you want to use a choke-input filter in the first place?
AFAIK, they are most useful in giving you better output voltage regulation under varying load than a capacitor input filter. They have the added advantage that you can get more DC _power_ from a given transformer by using a choke input filter, because although the output voltage is lower, the RMS transformer winding current is lowered even more. BUT--the voltage regulation advantage is lost if you try this with a half-wave rectifier circuit, because you cannot maintain constant enough current in the choke. To get the voltage regulation, the current in the choke must not drop to zero at any time in the cycle, and that's not going to happen while maintaining reasonable output voltage in a half-wave circuit. (There's some limited help if you put a "catch diode" to keep the voltage across the choke from swinging too far negative, but that's not enough to get the advantage of the full-wave circuit.) In addition, as John says, in the circuit as drawn, the choke is simply in series with the transformer secondary, so you must reverse the current in it between half-cycles to get conduction on both half-cycles. It will not behave anything even close to the way that a full-wave rectifier feeding a choke input filter will. Suggest you try a simple Spice (e.g. the free LTSpice from the Linear Techonolgy website) simulation of this and the normal full-wave circuit, and look at the huge differences. Note especially what happens when you vary the DC load on the output. Cheers, Tom |
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