Will This Supply Work With UCD180

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Now for some good news. The very helpful people at Stadholder Tek (where I bought my two supplies) have confirmed that it is possible to connect them in parallel. They are currently (no pun intended) preparing some instructions on how to do this.

Apparently it involves the use of ORing diodes (such as an 80V 5A shottky diode) on each branch of the paralleled outputs. It is also possible to connect the controller IC's of each supply together, so all supplies see the sensed output identically.

BTW - the supplies for Stadholder Tek look similar to those from All Electronics......but the Lambda part numbers are different.
The ones from All Electronics are SCQ12003054848. Broken down like this; SC Q 120 03 05 48 48.........SC - Series, Q - Quad output, 120 - 120W, 03 - CH1@3V, 05 - CH2@5V, 48 - CH3@48V, 48 - CH4@48V.
The ones from Stadholder Tek are SCS200-P48480503W....suggesting a 200W supply.

 

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Now for some good news. The very helpful people at Stadholder Tek (where I bought my two supplies) have confirmed that it is possible to connect them in parallel. They are currently (no pun intended) preparing some instructions on how to do this.

This is good news. I had downloaded the spec sheet of the controller chip to see if I could do this very mod ..It seemed I could, but it's certainly nice to hear confirmation of this.

Please let me know when you get the instructions..either here, or by my email in my profile. I believe your breakdown on the differences between the supplies are correct..200W vs. 100W, but I see no reason why you couldn't string as many together as you needed with either version.

Thanx again Fin for the info.

-Casey

 

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This is good news. I had downloaded the spec sheet of the controller chip to see if I could do this very mod ..It seemed I could, but it's certainly nice to hear confirmation of this.

Good work. We are making progress.

Please let me know when you get the instructions..either here, or by my email in my profile.

I have asked for his permission to post them here so that we can all benefit.

I believe your breakdown on the differences between the supplies are correct..200W vs. 100W, but I see no reason why you couldn't string as many together as you needed with either version.

Absolutely. I plan to use two - which should hopefully give me 180W (45V @ 4A) per channel. The TA0103A amp can delivery 85W/channel into 8ohms with 0.1% THD+N or 150W/channel into 8ohms with 1% THD+N. So I think two will be enough.

 

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Parallel two SMPS

OK - here is a new link to the modding instruction for the Lambda supplies:
http://www.l3es.com/support/LambdaSMPS.htm

And here is a Link to the instructions for paralleling two of them:
http://www.l3es.com/support/Parallel.htm


I've copied and pasted the instructions below.....incase the link changes or expires:-

Copied from the Stadholdertek support web page.

Connecting Switching power supplies in parallel is possible if certain precautions are observed.

1. Use ORing diodes

These are diodes connected to form a logic OR function.

This is a simple OR gate. If either the top leg, or the bottom leg, or both, are high, the output will be high.
If both inputs are low, the output is low.
In the analog world, the higher of the 2 input voltages will be passed to the output, and the lower one will be ignored.
More importantly, the higher voltage leg will not push current back into the lower voltage leg. And each voltage source will be unaware of the presence of the other.

Any silicon rectifiers could be used in the above function, but if substantial currents will be present, Schottky diodes are preferred, because their lower voltage drop will dissipate less power and heat. The ratings should be 1.5 times the maximum current and voltage expected in each branch. In the case of the lambda, you may assume 4A peak if the SMPS is modified for current, 2.5A otherwise, which requires 6A or 4A Schottkys , respectively. For voltage, you must assume the entire branch voltage with respect to ground as worst case, so, for 45V sources, 70V Schottkys will be needed. If one supply should come on before the other on applying power, then the latent branch diode will see the full branch voltage across its terminals.

If you do nothing else, do Nr 1 above. These suggestions are presented in order of importance. The ORing diodes are imperative for parallelling power supplies, and cannot be skipped. They are required for safety, and all they do is keep you from making major blunders. To refine your setup, however, you can go further, and may stop at whatever level of difficulty you are comfortable with.

2. Closely trim voltages

Trim the voltages from each power supply to be as closely matched as possible. If one SMPS puts out 100mV more than the other, then the higher SMPS will provide all the current to the load alone, until its voltage drops sufficiently (from loading) to equal the lower voltage branch, at which time the sibling supply will start to contribute current also. If it takes 0.5A draw to cause a 100mV drop in output voltage, then the higher voltage supply will always be delivering 0.5A more than the lower one. Unequal load sharing does not make efficient use of available power.

3. Share the control loop

Each SMPS does its own work of sampling the output voltage, and making recommendations to the PWM controller on how to drive the power MOSFET.
It makes sense that for two supplies working together, the recommendations should be identical, but they may not be. To ensure that they are, pins Nr 2 of each SMPS controller chip (UC3842) should be tied together.

As you can see - Andy at Stadholdertek has been a great help.