RLC Circuit - Parallel RLC Circuit

Parallel RLC Circuit

Figure 5. RLC parallel circuit
V - the voltage of the power source
I - the current in the circuit
R - the resistance of the resistor
L - the inductance of the inductor
C - the capacitance of the capacitor

The properties of the parallel RLC circuit can be obtained from the duality relationship of electrical circuits and considering that the parallel RLC is the dual impedance of a series RLC. Considering this it becomes clear that the differential equations describing this circuit are identical to the general form of those describing a series RLC.

For the parallel circuit, the attenuation α is given by

and the damping factor is consequently

This is the inverse of the expression for ζ in the series circuit. Likewise, the other scaled parameters, fractional bandwidth and Q are also the inverse of each other. This means that a wide band, low Q circuit in one topology will become a narrow band, high Q circuit in the other topology when constructed from components with identical values. The Q and fractional bandwidth of the parallel circuit are given by

and

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