PSPICE Simulation

For simulation using Pspice, the circuit used is shown below. Here the nodes are numbered. The ac source is connected between nodes 1 and 0. The diode is connected between nodes 1 and 2 and the inductor links nodes 2 and 3. The resistor is connected from 3 to the reference node, that is, node 0.

The Pspice program is presented below.

* First Chapter: Half-wave Rectifier with RL Load
* A problem to find the diode current
VIN 1 0 SIN(0 340V 50Hz)
D1 1 2 DNAME
L1 2 3 31.8MH
R1 3 0 10
.MODEL DNAME D(IS=10N N=1 BV=1200 IBV=10E-3 VJ=0.6)
.TRAN 10US 60.0MS 20.0MS 10US
.PROBE
.OPTIONS(ABSTOL=1N RELTOL=.01 VNTOL=1MV)
.END

The diode is described using the MODEL statement. The TRAN statement simulates the transient operation for a period of 60 ms at an interval of 10 ms. The OPTIONS statement sets limits for tolerances. The output can be viewed on the screen because of the PROBE statement. A snapshot of output is presented below.