Download Lab 10 for Thevenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits | EE 206 and more Lab Reports Electrical and Electronics Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! EE - 206: FUNDAMENTAL AND DIGITAL CIRCUIT LABORATORY LABORATORY EXPERIMENT #10C THEVENIN AND NORTON EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS Objective: To obtain the Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits of the multi-node circuit provided, simulate those circuits and compare their performance to the original circuit, build the Thevenin equivalent circuit, and compare its performance to the original circuit performance. Pre-Lab Preparation: 1. Review the information related to Thevenin's and Norton's theorems in Sections 4.5, 4.6, and 10.6 of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits. Alexander & Sadikti. 2. For the Circuit Schematic Provided, analyze the multi-node circuit and obtain the load currents and load voltages for the three values of load resistance specified. 3. Proceed to find, by analysis, the Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits at the points a,b in the schematic. Experiments: 1. Simulate the original multi-node circuit and predict the load current and load voltage of the load resistor for each of the three load resistors specified. 2. Simulate the Thevenin equivalent circuit and the Norton equivalent circuit for each of the three load resistors specified, and obtain the load voltage and load current for each case. 3. Build the original circuit and measure the load current and voltage for each of the three load resistors. 4. Build the Thevenin equivalent circuit and measure the three load currents and voltages. Post-lab analysis: 1. Generate a lab report following the sample report format. 2. Include a table of results for: Manual computations for the required load voltages and currents for both the original circuit and the Thevenin and Norton equivalents, the PSPICE simulation results for load voltages and currents, and measured circuit voltages and currents for the original circuit and the Thevenin circuit (Not Norton). 3. In your Analysis Section, compare the load voltages and currents obtained from the calculated solution with both the simulation results and the measured results (except Norton) for: a) The original circuit. b) The Thevenin equivalent circuit c) The Norton equivalent circuit for all three values of load resistor, using percent error for each (create a table for these). 4. Comment on the results (include estimates of the magnitude of the possible error contributions and calculate the magnitude of their effect on the results). 5. Comment on any problems encountered or unexpected results.
