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IGBT bridge drivers keep blowing up (again :/)
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TmaxElectronics:
A while ago i built a full bridge driver for a tesla coil using dedicated half bridge driver ICs, which kept blowing up, so I made a post here about those (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/igbt-full-bridge-issues/msg2900336/#msg2900336).
Now I implemented the suggestions I got here into a new design (schematic and board layout is attached) and switched to a different driver (L6494), that supports dead time control, but the drivers still keep failing.

They run for about 5 minutes, and then fail, shorting the input to ground and not providing any output. I did not observe any ringing at the outputs of the driver, and put in the correct drive resistors (10ohm for IMax of 1.5A),  so i (again) don't have any clue why they keep failing.

The attached switching waveform is unfortunately the only one I took a screenshot of, before the drivers broke.

Is there anything that could make these drivers blow up, other than inadequate input decoupling leading to ringing or too low output drive impedance?
I am kind of getting desperate having thrown a lot of money away by blowing up drivers  :-BROKE
ace1903:
Embedded developer here so no expert knowledge but will try to help.
1uF seems too much capacitance for the bootstrap capacitor.  Have seen lot of schematics and usually lower value is used.
The datasheet suggests an external diode to be used when using large capacitance. There was st appnote explaining measures to be taken this capacitor to be kept charged all the time.
To me looks like the capacitor is drained after a while IGBT is underdriven and blows up.
If there is no one to suggest something smarter I would try external diodes, maybe smaller capacitance and for test
pure resistive load (maybe some heater or an incandescent lamp) . 
moffy:
Maybe a clamping zener at the gate of each of the IGBT's to prevent dv/dt induced spikes.
T3sl4co1l:
There's uh, no bootstrap power, so it doesn't work at all? ???

If you've patched that, then the incredibly loose layout, and complete lack of ground plane (and lack of one Kelvin gate drive pin?), likely puts all sorts of nasty transient voltages around the circuit.  In particular, peak voltages above 600V and below -25V will kill it.

IGBTs also don't behave well without negative Vge(off).  Not sure how much this has improved over the last few years (if at all), but expecting more than 50kHz from them at anywhere near full power (which ought to be ~20kW continuous for SOT-227 sized parts?) is woefully optimistic, even with biased drive.

Tim
TmaxElectronics:
The bootstrap diode is integrated into the IC, and i am actually using the kelvin emitters of the IGBTs, but the schematic didn't show them.

I am also sceptical about the bootstrap capacitor being too large, because (i think) that would really only be a concern at power up. After that, all the bootstrap diode has to supply is the charge that was put into the gate of the transistor, so maybe gate charge is abnormally high? I think I will try to patch in an external diode though, as the internal resistance seems quite high at 175 Ohm.

And I think i explained myself poorly: what blows up here is not the IGBTs, but rather the drivers themself, even when there is no load being driven at all (and no power connected to the bridge, only to the driver).
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