SCR based voltage regulator

Hi,
a friend of mine wants to build an SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) based AC/DC voltage regulator. Any ideas where he can find a circuit?

niranjay_r said:

Hi,
a friend of mine wants to build an SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) based AC/DC voltage regulator. Any ideas where he can find a circuit?

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You can do one for AC, using phase shift control, usually using a bridge rectifer so you can control both positive and negative peaks. DC is more of a problem, as you need some way of turning the SCR off - on AC it turns off automatically as the voltage drops to zero.

It doesn't seem a very good choice for a voltage regulator, what is he wanting to control?.

Could you control the AC input to the rectifier as a way to control the output of the rectifier/rectifier assembly?

SCR will be fine with firing angle control. That way by changing the firing angle of the tyristors you can change the average DC link value (you will need a decent cap tho).

And since you are controlling on the AC side it is natually commutated so the Tyristor automatically turn off (as long as you remove the gating pulse)