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gunayburak
- 15th July 2014, 01:11
Hi everyone;

I'm upto a triac control circuit . So , in order to control the triac triggering angle we need to detect the zero crossing points .. I've made the attached circuit schematic on a breadboard but I'm having too weird problem about the full wave rectified sine wave .. The rectified wave can not reach to zero cross twice but only once during a period and plots an unintended line as seen on the attached picture .. I've changed the circuit components for a thousands of times including the resistors , capacitors , bridge rectifiers , transistors even the breadboard ... The rectified wave even acts same on a single load resistor ...

What could the problem be ?

PLEASE HELP ... 73827383738473857386

richard
- 15th July 2014, 04:29
looks like your ac signal earth reference is biased one forward diode voltage above earth.
you need something like this

amgen
- 15th July 2014, 14:24
I use 'ac opto' to get 0xing. vary R3 to change width of the zero area7388

oh, add series resister to opto input !!

gunayburak
- 15th July 2014, 23:14
I use 'ac opto' to get 0xing. vary R3 to change width of the zero area7388

oh, add series resister to opto input !!

Thanks for your replies guys .

To amgen ; Why would we still need the diodes and the cap since the AC opto and a series resistor are sufficient to detect the zero crosses ?
I mean the following link would have sufficied I suppose ?

http://i.stack.imgur.com/sw3mO.png

amgen
- 16th July 2014, 00:39
thought that was part of your power supply stuff !! otherwise then not needed.
don