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Hay Bridge

Hay's bridge is a modified version of Maxwell's bridge used to measure high inductance by incorporating a series combination of resistor and capacitor. The circuit forms a rhombus with specific impedances for each arm, leading to a balance condition that relates the impedances. The document provides mathematical expressions for the impedances and the conditions for balance in the circuit.

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Hay Bridge

Hay's bridge is a modified version of Maxwell's bridge used to measure high inductance by incorporating a series combination of resistor and capacitor. The circuit forms a rhombus with specific impedances for each arm, leading to a balance condition that relates the impedances. The document provides mathematical expressions for the impedances and the conditions for balance in the circuit.

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Hay’s Bridge

Hay’s bridge is a modified version of Maxwell’s bridge, which we get by modifying the
arm, which consists of a parallel combination of resistor and capacitor into the arm, which
consists of a series combination of resistor and capacitor in Maxwell’s bridge.
Hay’s bridge is used to measure the value of high inductance. The circuit diagram of
Hay’s bridge is shown in the below figure.

Circuit diagram of Hay bridge


In above circuit, the arms AB, BC, CD and DA together form a rhombus or square shape.
The arms, AB and CD consist of resistors, R2R2 and R3R3 respectively. The arm, BC
consists of a series combination of resistor, R4R4 and inductor, L4L4. The arm, DA
consists of a series combination of resistor, R1R1 and capacitor, C1C1.
Let, Z1,Z2,Z3Z1,Z2,Z3 and Z4Z4 are the impedances of arms DA, AB, CD and BC
respectively. The values of these impedances will be

1
𝑍1 = 𝑅1 + 𝑗𝜔𝐶 ; 𝑍2 = 𝑅2 ; 𝑍3 = 𝑅3 ; 𝑍4 = 𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4
1

At balance,
𝑍4 𝑍1 = 𝑍2 𝑍3
𝑅2 𝑅3
𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4 = 1
𝑅1 +
𝑗𝜔𝐶1
Multiply both the numerator and denominator of the RHS by 𝑗𝜔𝐶1 yields
𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅2 𝑅3
𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4 = 1 + 𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1

Rationalisation yields
𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅2 𝑅3 1− 𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1
𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4 = ×
1 + 𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1 1− 𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1

𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅2 𝑅3 −𝑗 2 𝜔2 𝐶1 2 𝑅2 𝑅3 𝑅1
𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4 = 1 + 𝜔2 𝐶1 2𝑅1 2

𝜔2 𝐶1 2 𝑅2 𝑅3 𝑅1 +𝑗𝜔𝐶1 𝑅2 𝑅3
𝑅4 + 𝑗𝜔𝑅4 = 1 + [𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1 ]2

𝜔2 𝐶1 2 𝑅2 𝑅3 𝑅1
𝑅4 = 1 + [𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1 ]2

𝐶1 𝑅2 𝑅3
and 𝐿4 =
1 + [𝜔𝐶1 𝑅1 ]2

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