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Alternating Current: Modulation and Transformers
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DC
In direct current (DC), the charge carriers (usually electrons) flow in one direction only. The size of the current (number of amps) may vary with time, but the flow direction does not. A voltage that would cause a direct current in simple resistor circuit is called a DC voltage.
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Voltage needs
Most computer hardware needs DC voltage, requiring between 1.5 and 13.5 volts.
A typical monitor, a cathode ray tube CRT display, requires much higher voltages.
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AC/DC
Direct current is produced by batteries.
In contrast, the electricity available from the standard wall socket is alternating current (AC).
Less power is lost in transmitting high-voltage AC than in transmitting the corresponding amount using lower-voltage DC.
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AC
Alternating current (AC) occurs when the charge carriers periodically reverse their direction.
Household current is AC with a frequency of 60 Hertz (cycles per second). In some countries it is 50 Hz and a different voltage
The radio-frequency (RF) current in antennas and transmission lines is another example of AC.
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Converting
AC can be converted to DC by a computer’s power supply.
A power supply consists of a transformer (reduces voltage) a rectifier (makes voltage positive only) a filter (smoothes out voltage)
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Waveform
The waveform is the shape of the voltage as a function of time Typical AC waveforms can be sinusoidal square sawtooth ramped triangular
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Sinusoidal
AC Voltage
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Time (s)
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Peak voltage
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Square wave
Square
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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
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Saw Tooth
Saw Tooth
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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
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Ramp
Ramp
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Triangular
Triangular
-1.5-1
-0.50
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0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
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Irregular
Ideally what comes out of a wall socket is sine-wave. Square or sawtooth waves may be produced by some low-end uninterruptible power supplies when operating from the battery. Some AC waveforms are irregular, particularly those carrying informationAC waves are produced by audio amplifiers that deal with analog voice signals and/or music.
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Carriers and Modulation
One way to transmit information is to send it along with an AC current. A simple sine wave conveys little to no information. But one can modulate (change) the time dependence to send information Amplitude modulation (AM) changes the peak value. Frequency modulation (FM) changes the frequency. Phase shift keying (PSK) changes the phase of the
wave.
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Amplitude: how big is the disturbance (esp. at its maxima)
The two waves shown above have different amplitudes.
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Frequency: how many cycles (one unit of
repeated disturbance) go by in a second
The two waves shown above have different frequencies.
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Phase: what part of the cycle the wave is in at a particular time
The above waves are “out of phase.”
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Amplitude modulation
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Amplitude modulation (4 states/2 bits)
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Frequency modulation
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Phase modulation
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QAM (Phase and Amplitude)
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Measuring AC voltage
An AC voltage is always changing with time.
The effective voltage of an AC power source is the DC voltage that would produce the same power dissipation (i.e amount of heat) for a simple resistor circuit.
This voltage is also known as the root-mean-square voltage.
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RMS Versus Peak Voltages
Another way to characterize AC supplies is by their peak voltage, that is, the highest voltage in the shape.
The rms voltage is not equal to the peak voltage. For a sine wave, the rms voltage is 0.707 times the peak voltage. .707 1 / 2
For example, if the typical US rms voltage is 117 V, then the typical peak voltage is 165 V.
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Average Voltage
Sinusoidal AC voltage has the form
V(t) = Vpeak sin(2 f t), where Vpeak is the peak voltage f is the frequency
The average voltage is zero, half the time it’s positive, half the time it’s
negative
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The Root Mean Square Average
The root mean square is a way to take a meaningful averageSquare: the voltage is half negative,half positive. Square it so it will always be positiveMean: average over timeRoot: take the square root so we get back to voltage instead of voltage squared
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Rms Voltage for sine wave
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Audio frequency
AC between 20 and 20,000 Hz is known as Audio frequency (AF).
If such current is fed into a speaker, it will produce sound waves within the range of human hearing.
All telephone circuits operate with AF signals in a restricted range of approximately 200 Hz to 3000 Hz.
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Modem
Modems convert data in binary form into analog signals in the AF range that can be transmitted over the telephone wire
Modems also receive the AF signals and convert them back into binary form.
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Limitations
The phone system was designed to work over a limited range of frequencies suitable to human voices Humans hear 20-20,000 Hz Phone system uses up to 3000 Hz
This limitation in frequencies puts limitations on bandwidth which is related to the rate of information flow. The baud rate of a modem is tied to the frequencies phone lines were designed to handle.
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Radio Frequencies
Radio frequency (RF) refers to an AC voltage that if applied to an antenna would produce an electromagnetic wave of the sort used in radio and other wireless communications.
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Frequency range
These frequencies cover the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, starting at around 9 kHz, and going up to thousands of gigahertz (GHz).
AM radio is between kHz and MHz.
FM radio is in the MHz range.
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Wireless
Many wireless devices make use of RF fields. Cordless and cellular telephone Radio and television broadcast stations Satellite communications systems Two-way radio services
Some wireless devices operate at higher frequencies (Infrared IR or visible-light) frequencies most television-set remote-control boxes some cordless computer keyboards and mice
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DSL
Digital Subscriber Line.
One choice to beat the limitations of modems.
It works at higher frequencies and hence higher bandwidths.
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Ranges of RF
The RF spectrum is divided into several ranges, or bands.
The table shows the eight bands in the RF spectrum, along with their frequency and corresponding wavelengths.
The SHF and EHF bands are often referred to as the microwave spectrum.
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RF Ranges
Name Abbrev. Freq. WavelengthVery low freq. VLF 9kHz-30kHz 33 km - 10 km
Low Freq. LF 30 kHz - 300 kHz
10 km - 1 km
Medium Freq. MF 300 kHz - 3 MHz 1 km - 100 m
High Freq. HF 3 MHz - 30 MHz 100 m - 10 m
Very High Freq. VHF 30 MHz - 300 MHz
10 m - 1 m
Ultra High Freq. UHF 300 MHz - 3 GHz
1 m - 100 mm
Super High Freq.
SHF 3 GHz - 30 GHz 100 mm - 10 mm
Extremely High Freq.
EHF 30 GHz - 300 GHz
10 mm - 1 mm
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Electricity and Magnetism
Changing electric fields cause magnetic fields.Changing magnetic fields cause electric fields. These effects lead to electromagnetic radiation (radio, microwaves, infrared, light, ultraviolet, x-rays). They also lead to motors and transformers.
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Transformers
Wires from two independent AC circuits are wound around a core (usually iron). That’s why transformers are heavy.
A current is sent through the first (primary) circuit, producing a magnetic field in the core Magnetic fields are caused by currents and changing
electric fields.
That magnetic field is changing because the current is changing.
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Transformers (Cont.)
The changing magnetic field in the core causes and electric field around the core. That electric field causes a current in the other (secondary) circuit. It too is an alternating current. The voltages and currents are dependent on the number of times each is wrapped around the core.
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Transformers (Cont.)
In this way the transformer changes the voltage. Power=voltage current remains the same for the two circuits. If the secondary voltage is lowered, it is known as a step-down transformer. If the secondary voltage is raised, it is called a step-up transformer.