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diyAudio Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Hello,
I'm trying yo build a very simple and low power half bridge smps. I don't really have a schematic but, it's just a pwm signal theat is feed in 2 high speed opto couplers (6n317). The mosfet driving side is powered by two 14v isolated power supplyes, with the out of the opto couplets going trough a not gate and then to two tc4420 mosfet drivers. I have 50ohms between them and the gates. The mosfets are a pair of irfp260 and the voltage being switched is just 12v and is limited at about 5A The transformer is a small ferite core wound bifilar 10:10. The whole thing works but under moderate load there is some ringing. Gate waveforms without main power. http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4057/mg5751.jpg Yellow is low side mosfet and blue is the midpoint between the mosfets, under no load: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1392/mg5752.jpg Same under small load (12v halogen light bulb): http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3015/mg5753i.jpg I did try to add rc snubbers on the mosfets and ultra fast diodes also paralel to the mosfets, but the ringing is still there. |
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this is not a gate problem, this ringing comes from main trafo, you should put RC's there
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diyAudio Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
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I tried to add some rc to the transformer and it made the waveform a little better but there is still ringing.
How are the waveforms supposed to look on a properly working half bridge? |
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post pictures, lets see them, show what primary gets, and what secondary looks like
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diyAudio Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Will do so later. I will try to shorten as much as I can some connections and give the rc snubbers another try, then I'll post more waveforms and the exact values I used.
The secondary waveforms look very close to the primary. They look very strongly coupled. The waveforms from the first post are from the primary side. One thing I don't understand, when the duty cycle is close to 100% (50% per phase) the transformer is actively driven almost all the time, but at lower duty cycles when both the fets are off it's normal to have the transformer going into flyback mode at the fets turn off, and using snubbers is the proper way to dampen the oscillations? |
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I used "long" wires to see what C and R works best for me.
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diyAudio Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Ok so
Low duty cicle, unloaded and no snubbers, yellow is the low side fet gate, blue is the midpoint between the fets: http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7908/mg5776.jpg Now loaded with 3.3 ohms on the secondary: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6180/mg5777.jpg Same, zoomed in a bit: http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2184/mg5780.jpg Now with a 13ohm 1uF snubber across each fet drain source: http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3038/mg5781.jpg And on this the blue is the waveform on the secondary: http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/8453/mg5782.jpg And this is how the whole contraption looks like.... http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7733/mg5775.jpg The two capacitors that from the other leg of the bridge are 680uF 200v, and there is no series capacitor with the transformer. |
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