Power Acoustic, unhappy mosfets

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Hi there;

I'm having trouble with a Power Acoustic A4200db

I've replaced all the fets in the power supply,
and their gate resistors.

I used RPF70N06's in place of the IRFZ46n's that were in there.

All the output fets are new as well.

It powers up fine, but draws too much current idling.

I see that the fets on one phase are happy, but the ones on the other phase of the power supply are getting pretty hot.

With a scope, and all the fets out of the circuit, the waveforms on the PMW chip are uniform, but when I insert
the new fets back in, one phase gets skewed


You can see by this picture, the top wave has quite a bump on it, that's the problem phase.


I was thinking maybe a shorted torroid, but this is a split PS with 2 transformers why would just that phase get go squirly on both ?

Got any ideas ?

[Perry Babin]

Driver transistors?

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Sorry, I forgot to mention the totem pole drivers test good with a meter, not leaky or shorted, I have not replaced them yet, and that's why.

[Perry Babin]

If the driver transistors are not defective, all of the gate and pulldown resistors are within tolerance and there are no open traces, the driver IC may well be defective.

Does the gate drive signal for any power supply FET (taken from the gate leg of the FET) look different than the gate drive signal on any other power supply FET?

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Yes, the gate from one of the fets that is heating up still has a slight bump on the top, near the leading edge.

Taken from a fet that is cool, there is no bump and the transistion is a slight bit smoother

[Perry Babin]

You may have a defective FET if the gate resistors are within tolerance and it's only visible on one of the FETs.

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Originally Posted by Perry Babin

You may have a defective FET if the gate resistors are within tolerance and it's only visible on one of the FETs.

yeah, the gates on all the fet's on that phase of the PS look the same.

Maybe you're right about that driver ic, I'll try changing it and see what happens.
Thanks Perry