Name of Experiment: Construct a Hartley Oscillator and Determine its Frequency of .

Objectives:

After completing this experiment we would able to learn: 1. How a tank circuit operates. 2. How it produces sinusoidal signal. 3. How a Hartley Oscillator operates.

History:

The Hartley oscillator was invented by Ralph V.L. Hartley while he was working for the Research Laboratory of the Western Electric Company. Hartley invented and patented the design in 1915 while overseeing Bell System's transatlantic radiotelephone tests; it was awarded patent number 1,356,763 on October 26, 1920.

Theory:

A Hartley oscillator is essentially any configuration that uses two series-connected coils and a single (see for the equivalent oscillator using two and one coil). Although there is no requirement for there to be mutual coupling between the two coil segments, the circuit is usually implemented this way.

It is made up of the following: • Two in series, which need not be mutual • One tuning capacitor

Advantages of the Hartley oscillator include: • The frequency may be adjusted using a single variable capacitor • The output amplitude remains constant over the frequency range • Either a tapped coil or two fixed inductors are needed

Disadvantages include; Harmonic-rich content if taken from the and not directly from the LC circuit

The basic LC Oscillator circuit is that they have no means of controlling the amplitude of the and also, it is difficult to tune the oscillator to the required frequency. If the cumulative electromagnetic coupling between L1 and L2 is too small there would be insufficient and the oscillations would eventually die away to zero. Likewise if the feedback was too strong the oscillations would continue to increase in amplitude until they were limited by the circuit conditions producing signal . So it becomes very difficult to "tune" the oscillator.

However, it is possible to feed back exactly the right amount of voltage for constant amplitude oscillations. If we feed back more than is necessary the amplitude of the oscillations can be controlled by biasing the amplifier in such a way that if the oscillations increase in amplitude, the bias is increased and the gain of the amplifier is reduced. If the amplitude of the oscillations decreases the bias decreases and the gain of the amplifier increases, thus increasing the feedback. In this way the amplitude of the oscillations are kept constant using a process known as Automatic Base Bias . One big advantage of automatic base bias in a voltage controlled oscillator, is that the oscillator can be made more efficient by providing a Class-B bias or even a Class-C bias condition of the transistor. This has the advantage that the collector current only flows during part of the oscillation cycle so the quiescent collector current is very small. Then this "self-tuning" base oscillator circuit forms one of the most common types of LC parallel resonant feedback oscillator configurations called the Hartley Oscillator circuit.

Hartley Oscillator Tuned Circuit

In the Hartley Oscillator the tuned LC circuit is connected between the collector and the base of the transistor amplifier. As far as the oscillatory voltage is concerned, the emitter is connected to a tapping point on the tuned circuit coil. The feedback of the tuned tank circuit is taken from the centre tap of the coil or even two separate coils in series which are in parallel with a variable capacitor, C as shown.

The Hartley circuit is often referred to as a split- oscillator because coil L is centre- tapped. In effect, inductance L acts like two separate coils in very close proximity with the current flowing through coil section XY induces a signal into coil section YZ below. An Hartley Oscillator circuit can be made from any configuration that uses either a single tapped coil (similar to an autotransformer) or a pair of series connected coils in parallel with a single capacitor as shown below.

Basic Hartley Oscillator Circuit Operation:

When the circuit is oscillating, the voltage at point X (collector), relative to point Y (emitter), is 180 o out-of-phase with the voltage at point Z (base) relative to point Y. At the frequency of oscillation, the impedance of the Collector load is resistive and an increase in Base voltage causes a decrease in the Collector voltage. Then there is a 180 o phase change in the voltage between the Base and Collector and this along with the original 180 o phase shift in the feedback loop provides the correct phase relationship of for oscillations to be maintained.

The amount of feedback depends upon the position of the "tapping point" of the inductor. If this is moved nearer to the collector the amount of feedback is increased, but the output taken between the Collector and earth is reduced and vice versa. Resistors, R1 and R2 provide the usual stabilizing DC bias for the transistor in the normal manner while the capacitors act as DC- blocking capacitors.

In this Hartley Oscillator circuit, the DC Collector current flows through part of the coil and for this reason the circuit is said to be "Series-fed" with the frequency of oscillation of the Hartley Oscillator being given as. f=1/2 √() Where LT =L 1+L 2+2M

Note: L T is the total cumulatively coupled inductance if two separate coils are used including their mutual inductance, M.

The frequency of oscillations can be adjusted by varying the "tuning" capacitor, C or by varying the position of the iron-dust core inside the coil (inductive tuning) giving an output over a wide range of frequencies making it very easy to tune. Also the Hartley Oscillator produces output amplitude which is constant over the entire frequency range.

As well as the Series-fed Hartley Oscillator above, it is also possible to connect the tuned tank circuit across the amplifier as a shunt-fed oscillator as shown below.

Shunt-Fed Hartley Oscillator Circuit:

In the Shunt-fed Hartley Oscillator both the AC and DC components of the Collector current have separate paths around the circuit. Since the DC component is blocked by the capacitor, C2 no DC flows through the inductive coil, L and less power is wasted in the tuned circuit. The Radio Frequency Coil (RFC), L2 is an RF choke which has a high reactance at the frequency of oscillations so that most of the RF current is applied to the LC tuning tank circuit via capacitor, C2 as the DC component passes through L2 to the power supply. A resistor could be used in place of the RFC coil, L2 but the efficiency would be less.

Hartley Oscillator Using an Op-amp:

As well as using a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) as the active stage of the Hartley oscillator, we can also use either a field effect transistor, (FET) or an operational amplifier, (op- amp). The operation of an Op-amp Hartley Oscillator is exactly the same as for the transistorized version with the frequency of operation calculated in the same manner. Consider the circuit below. Hartley Oscillator Op-amp Circuit:

The advantage of constructing a Hartley oscillator using an operational amplifier as its active stage is that the gain of the op-amp can be very easily adjusted using the feedback resistors R1 and R2. As with the transistorized oscillator above, the gain of the circuit must be equal too or slightly greater than the ratio of L1/L2. If the two inductive coils are wound onto a common core and mutual inductance M exists then the ratio becomes (L1+M)/(L2+M).

Hartley Oscillator Summary:

Then to summarize, the Hartley Oscillator consists of a parallel LC resonator tank circuit whose feedback is achieved by way of an inductive divider. Like most oscillator circuits, the Hartley oscillator exists in several forms, with the most common form being the transistor circuit above with the tuned tank circuit having its coil tapped to feed a fraction of the output signal back to the emitter of the transistor. Since the output of the transistors emitter is always "in-phase" with the output at the collector, this feedback signal is positive. The oscillating frequency which is a sine-wave voltage is determined by the frequency of the tank circuit.

Apparatus:

(1) A transistor (C282) (2) Two inductor(33,5.6,10uH) (3) Capacitors(22,4.7,10nF) (4) DC power supply (5) Breadboard (6) Resistors(200 Ω,1,2.2,3.3,5.6,6.8 k Ω) (7) Variable resistor(100k Ω) (8) Oscilloscope (9) Multimeter (10) Connecting wires

Practical Circuit:

Fig-a: Practical Circuit for Hartley Oscillator.

Procedure:

(1) Firstly we Cheek the transistor, power button of the trainer, calibrate the oscilloscope. (2) Biasing voltage is fixed at 12 V. (3) Arrange the practical circuit as shown in fig - (a). (4) Then vary the capacitor when the inductor is kept fixed and the values are tabulated. (5) Then vary the inductor when the capacitor is kept fixed and the values are tabulated.

Calculation:

Here L1=L 2=33 µH LT= L 1+L 2=33+33=66 µH C=22 nF

Fc= 1/{2 π√()} =1/{2* π*√(66 µH*22 nF) = 132 kHz

-6 Fm=1/T=1/7.5*10 =133 kHz

% error ={(F c-Fm )/ Fc }*100={1-(F m/F c)}*100 ={1-(133/132)}*100 =0.757

Table-01: Data for frequency of oscillation when inductor fixed.

L1= L2= 33µH

Obs. Capacitor Time Period Frequency % Error -1 No C Tcal Tmea Fc={2 π√( )} Fm=1/T {1-(Fm/F c)}*100

nF (µs) (µs) (kHz) (kHz) 1 22 7.57 7.5 132 133 0.757 2 4.7 3.49 3.5 286 286 0.02 3 10 5.1 4.01 196 204 4.08

Table-02: Data for frequency of oscillation when capacitor fixed.

C1=C 2=10nF

Obs. Inductor Time Period Frequency % Error No -1 L1 L2 Tcal Tmea Fc={2 π√( )} Fm=1/T {1-(Fm/F c)}*100 (µH) (µH) (µs) (µs) (kHz) (kHz) 1 5.6 33 39 3.7 256 266.6 4.16 2 5.6 5.6 2.1 1.95 475.56 512.82 7.8 3 10 5.6 2.0 2.42 402.95 413.23 2.54

Result:

From the above data tables we have found the sinusoidal signals according to calculation. We can see in the data table-01; where capacitor C=22nF, Inductor,L1=L 2=33 µH, the calculated frequency f c=132kHz but measured frequency, fm=133kHz.This little variation between the calculated and measured values is occurred as % error of 0.757. The % error is minimum 0.02 and maximum 7.8. Other outputs are included in data table no -01 & 02.

Discussion:

From the table-01, we have seen that when inductor is fixed and the capacitor is varied, the measured values of the signals are approximately near to the true values. The variations is occurred due to many reasons such as any kinds of problem in the instruments, eye estimation problem, di-electric loss in capacitor, heating Problem, tolerances of resistors etc.

From the table-02, we have also seen that the measured values and true values of the signals are approximately same. In this time capacitor is fixed but inductor is varied. These variations are occurred due to many reasons such as any kinds of problem in the instruments, eye estimation problem, di-electric loss in capacitor, thermal heating, tolerance of resistors etc. Any how our tabulated values are so good. If these variations will be removed we will get error less Hartley Oscillator which is practically impossible.

Precautions:

1. All parameters and circuit were checked firstly 2. Whole circuit was arranged tightly and carefully. 3. Calibrate the oscilloscope more accurately. 4. Supply voltage is fixed at a point and not more than 15V. 5. Readings were taken very carefully . Prepared by Bhajan Saha Roll-0715012 Sess:2007-2008 Dept. of AECE. Islamic University,Kushtia, Bangladesh.