SMPS oddities
Hi all,
not exactly reapir related but, I think, interesting. I've been studying SMPSs for a while out of personal interest, and I stumbled upon an old schematic for a discrete component-based SMPS: http://bitman3.altervista.org/SMPS.png As I understand it, this is a self-oscillating SMPS operating in current mode. T302 is the main switcher, Th301 is the turn-off SCR, T301 acts as the voltage error amplifier whose output controls the maximum current on the primary coil. In particular, the cathode of Th301 is subject to a sawtooth negative voltage due to the primary coil current flowing through R317, while the gate voltage is controlled by the error voltage amplifier T301; the main switcher is turned off on a cycle-by-cycle basis when Vgk on Th301 reaches the turn-on threshold, and this determes the duration of Ton. The general principle of current mode operation is that a lower than expected voltage on the secondary should result in a longer Ton. My problem is that in this case it seems that the opposite is true! In fact, the secondary rectified voltage drives the base of T301: a higher secondary voltage results in a lower current on R304 and thus in a lower Vg on Th301. This, in turn, means that a higher magnitude of primary coil current is needed on R317 to turn on Th301, resulting in a longer Ton. In short: the higher the secondary voltage the longer the Ton, positive feedback, BOOM! I haven't got the real thing on hand so I cannot check the waveforms. I assume it's been built and it works, so I'm obviously missing something here. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks in advance, -- bitman |
SMPS oddities
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... Hi all, not exactly reapir related but, I think, interesting. I've been studying SMPSs for a while out of personal interest, and I stumbled upon an old schematic for a discrete component-based SMPS: http://bitman3.altervista.org/SMPS.png As I understand it, this is a self-oscillating SMPS operating in current mode. T302 is the main switcher, Th301 is the turn-off SCR, T301 acts as the voltage error amplifier whose output controls the maximum current on the primary coil. In particular, the cathode of Th301 is subject to a sawtooth negative voltage due to the primary coil current flowing through R317, while the gate voltage is controlled by the error voltage amplifier T301; the main switcher is turned off on a cycle-by-cycle basis when Vgk on Th301 reaches the turn-on threshold, and this determes the duration of Ton. The general principle of current mode operation is that a lower than expected voltage on the secondary should result in a longer Ton. My problem is that in this case it seems that the opposite is true! In fact, the secondary rectified voltage drives the base of T301: a higher secondary voltage results in a lower current on R304 and thus in a lower Vg on Th301. This, in turn, means that a higher magnitude of primary coil current is needed on R317 to turn on Th301, resulting in a longer Ton. In short: the higher the secondary voltage the longer the Ton, positive feedback, BOOM! I haven't got the real thing on hand so I cannot check the waveforms. I assume it's been built and it works, so I'm obviously missing something here. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks in advance, -- bitman Try sci.electronics.design. I got some useful advice , posting about a SMPS problem a week or two back -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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