Paper Code: ETEC-406                                                                             L    T     C
Paper: CONSUMER ELECTRONICS                                                     2     1      3                              
INSTRUCTIONS TO PAPER SETTERS:                                                                               MAXIMUM MARKS: 75       
1.     Question No. 1 should be compulsory and cover the entire syllabus. This question should have objective or short answer type questions. It should be of 25 marks.
2.     Apart from Q. No. 1 rest of the paper shall consist of four units as per the syllabus. Every unit should have two questions. However, student may be asked to attempt only 1 question from each unit. Each question should be of 12.5 marks.

Unit I

Audio System: Microphones: construction, working principles and applications of microphones, their types e.g.  i ) Carbon ii) moving coil iii) velocity iv) crystal v) condenser vi) cordless etc.
Loud speaker: Direct readiating, horn loaded woofer , tweeter , mid range , multi- speaker system , baffles and enclosures.
Sound recording on magnetic tape , its principles ,block digram , and tape transport mechanism.
Digital sound recording on tape and disc.
CD system, Hi- Fi system, pre- amplifier and equalizer system, stereo amplifiers            [No. of Hours: 11]

Unit II
Television: Monpchrome TV Communication: Elements of TV communication system; Scanning – its need for picture transmission; Need synchronizing and blanking pulses; Progressive scanning – Gross structure filters, interlaced scanning, resolution and band width requirement, tonal gradation; Composite Video signal (CVS )at the end of even and add fields. Equalizing pulses and their need; Monochrome picture tube – construction and working, comparison of magnetic and electric of Construction and working of camera tube: vidicon and plumbicon , Block diagram of TV camera and the transmitter chain
Block diagram of a TV receiver : function of each block and wave form at the input and out put of each block; Frequency range of various VHF bands and channels used in India Major specification of the CCIR.
Concepts of positive and negative modulation VSB Transmission Turner: Typical circuits of scanning and EHT stages of TV receiver , keyed AGC , function and location of brightness contrast V- hold , H- hold of centering control; Identification of faulty stage by analyzing the symptoms and basic idea of a few important faults and there remedies.                                                        [No. of Hours: 11]

Unit III
Color TV: Primary colors, trisimulus values, trichromitc coefficients, concepts of additive and subtracting mixing of colours, concepts of luminance, Hue and saturation, Representation of a color in colour triangle, non spectral colour , visibility curve; Compatibility of colour TV system with monochrome system . Block diagram of colour TV camera, Basic colour TV system – NTSC, SECAM, and PAL their advantages and disadvantages; Construction and working principles of Trinitron and PIL types of colour picture tubes. Concepts of convergence, purity, beam shifting; Need for luminance and band sharing by color signals, sub – carriers frequency, colour difference signal and its need synchronous quadratic modulation and representation of a color by a vector, brust signal and its need , chrominance signal; Block diagram of PAL TV receiver.                                              [No. of Hours: 11]

Unit IV
Explanation and working digital TV LCD TV , HDTV , Plasma TV
Cable Television: Block diagram and principle of working of cable TV and DTH, Cable TV using internet; Study of VCD and DVD , mobile phone architecture , FAX , Touch tone telephone set [No. of Hours: 11]

Text Books:
  1. R. R. Gulati, “Modern Television Practice” New Age International, 2nd Edition.
  2. S. P. Bali, “Consumer Electronics” Pearson Education, 1st Edition.
  3. R. G. Gupta, “Audio & Video Systems” TMH – 2nd Edition.

Reference Books:


  1. A. Dhake, “Television & Video Engineering” TMH – 2nd Edition.
  2. R.R. Gulati, “Monochrome & Colour Television” New age International Publisher,
2nd Edition.

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