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Homemade IGBT MIG welder with ATX PSU parts. [blown yet again][blown count: 5]
magic:
OK, thanks for the correction. I got to "primary is a push-pull" and stopped reading there :palm:
If the primary is 10T and the secondaries are 8T each than it's 330/2·0.8=130V indeed. So the diodes are killed by transients or their dubious provenance :P
xavier60:
--- Quote from: magic on July 25, 2019, 07:58:26 am ---OK, thanks for the correction. I got to "primary is a push-pull" and stopped reading there :palm:
If the primary is 10T and the secondaries are 8T each than it's 330/2·0.8=130V indeed. So the diodes are killed by transients or their dubious provenance :P
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And undamped ringing would come close to doubling that.
Refrigerator:
--- Quote from: xavier60 on July 25, 2019, 08:03:10 am ---
--- Quote from: magic on July 25, 2019, 07:58:26 am ---OK, thanks for the correction. I got to "primary is a push-pull" and stopped reading there :palm:
If the primary is 10T and the secondaries are 8T each than it's 330/2·0.8=130V indeed. So the diodes are killed by transients or their dubious provenance :P
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And undamped ringing would come close to doubling that.
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The snubbers on the diodes are another thing i forgot :palm:
I had them on the crap 150EBU04 diodes. :-BROKE
Refrigerator:
Took the MOSFETs out and they're both blown.
Cracked one open to check the die size and it's 5.5x5.5 = 30.25mm2, 0.5A/mm2.
magic:
So what actually is the point of having ±65V open circuit secondary voltage for 22V output? Do you expect 33% efficiency under actual load? :-//
I don't know what can be realistically expected from such converter, but 33% seems rather extreme. SMPS work better if transformer ratio is close to ideal and duty cycle close to 50%. Isn't it be better to cut the secondary in half and parallel the two parts for 32V output at lower impedance, still giving margin for 66% efficiency?
PWM surely is magic, but you pay for it right here.
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