Analysis of An RC Phase Shifter Circuit:: Objective

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Analysis of an RC Phase Shifter Circuit

Objective:

In this experiment our objective is to see the phase shifting operation of the series RC circuit
and see how this phase shifting depends upon the values of R ,C and frequency.

Apparatus

 Capacitor
 Resistor
 CRO
 Signal generator
 Bread board

Simulated work:

Circuit diagram:
Theory

A resistor–capacitor circuit (RC circuit), or RC


filter or RC network, is an electric
circuit composed
of resistors and capacitors driven by a voltage or current source. A first order RC circuit is
composed of one resistor and one capacitor and is the simplest type of RC circuit.

RC circuits can be used to filter a signal by blocking certain frequencies and passing others.
The two most common RC filters are the high-pass filters and low-pass filters; band-pass
filters and band-stop filters usually require RLC filters, though crude ones can be made with
RC filters. Phasor is one of the ways by which we can represent AC sinusoidal signals. And
at the end, voltage and current relationship between the basic circuit elements like resistor,
inductor, and capacitor has been explained using phasor diagram. A phasor diagram is used
to show the phase relationships between two or more sine waves having the same frequency.
A phase-shift oscillator is a linear electronic oscillator circuit that produces a sine wave
output. It consists of an inverting amplifier element such as a transistor or op amp with its
output fed back to its input through a phase-shift network consisting of resistors and
capacitors in a ladder network.

However, in reality, the phase-difference will be


less than this as the capacitor used in the
circuit cannot be ideal. Mathematically the
phase angle of the RC network is
expressed as Where, XC = 1/(2πfC) is the reactance of the capacitor C and R is the resistor. In
oscillators, these kind of RC phase-shift networks, each offering a definite phase-shift can be
cascaded so as to satisfy the phase-shift condition led by the Bark hausen Criterion.

The circuit consists of a 3-stage RC filter, a voltage follower, and an inverting amplifier. The
inverting amplifier's gain is -R/1k where the resistance R is to be determined. The dynamics
of the circuit is determined by the 3-stage RC filter. Each RC stage can provide up to 90
degrees of phase shift. With 3 such stages connected in cascade, the total phase shift can
reach 270 degrees at high frequency. In order to obtain zero phase margine, the feedback gain
must be set so that the loop gain is unity at the cross over frequency.

In practice, it is impossible to keep the phase margin exactly at zero as required for an
oscillator producing constant amplitude output. In other words, the poles of the circuit cannot
be positioned exactly on the imaginary axes. If the phase margin becomes negative (i.e., poles
shift slightly to the right of the imaginary axes) the output signal's amplitude will increase
exponentially. If the phase margin is positive (i.e., poles shift to the left), the output
amplitude will decrease exponentially.

Procedure:
 Connect the circuit as shown in fig-4 and see that the current indicated on M, is within
the range of the meter the voltmeter should also read properly
 Connect one of the probes of the oscilloscope across the output terminals ( as input to the
circuit ) of the voltage transformer .Connect the second probe across the load resistor R 7
leave the ground lead of one of the probes open.
 Turn on the oscilloscope and set the channel selector to “Dual” and type of coupling to
“DC ” and view both of the beams simultaneously, with voltage sensitivity set to 5
volt/cm.
 If one of the beams is displaying full-wave rectified output .Your circuit is functioning
properly then go ahead with the rest of the procedure. Otherwise go to step one and
recheck your connection
 Set the function and range switch of VOAM at 10 volts us
 Use VOAM to measure the as voltage VAC across the output terminal of the voltage
transformer VOAM will read the value of the ac voltage.
 Measure the dc current IDC, indicated on multi meter M3 .this will be equal to the average
value of the full-ware rectified current ,LVA, through the load resister,R7
 Measure the dc voltage VDC across the load resistor ,R7 indicated by the dc voltmeter on
the experiment panel. Also check that this value correspond with the value of V av
obtained in the step 10
 Calculate the peak value. VP. Of the an input voltages measured in step 6
 Calculate the peak current IP. Through the load resistor, R from current measured in step
7

 Calculate the average value of the full - wave rectified output voltage across the load
resistor R7.
 Calculate the output voltage across the load resistor R7

Observation and calculation table

For fixed C & f


Capacitor Resistor frequency Phase angle
1µ 0 1k 0
1µ 1k 1k 17.8
1µ 10k 1k 67.9
1µ 22k 1k 78.68
1µ 100k 1k 86
1µ 1M 1k 89.3

For fixed R & f

Capacitor Resistor frequency Phase angle


10k 4.7 µ 10k 58.8
10k 6.4 µ 10k 70.4
10k 7.5 µ 10k 72.25
10k 10 µ 10k 88.29

For fixed R & C

Capacitor Resistor frequency Phase angle


10k 1µ 1k 87.84
10k 1µ 5k 87.87
10k 1µ 10k 89.31
10k 1µ 50k 88.73

Graph:
Conclusion

 In this experiment we studied about the phase shift of series RC-circuit.


 In this we studied about the variation of the angle.
 From this experiment I concluded that the phase shifting depends upon frequency, resistor
and capacitor effect of series RC-Circuit.
 During the experiment I faced one problem when I connected the probes with the bread
board or capacitor to measure T there was some distortion in the signal.
 I also learned how to calculate the phase difference between the 2 waves.
 With new material being introduced, such as complex number and different frequencies
readings. We also observed the correct response of the RC response that we built on the
bread board.
 Moreover, I concluded that in DC the capacitor behaves as a open circuit
 In general our actual results compared favorably with the expected results.
 Using the computer software “NI MULTISIM”, the circuits similar to the one made
practically was made out. The values of the resistor and the capacitor are inputted and the
simulated results should be equal to the theoretical value of the current calculated above
in table but there is some percentage error due the inexperience person or some in
accuracy of instrument. Moreover in stimulated we easily change the values or connect
the wires with electrical components.

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