Hi,
[EDIT...This post is now solved, and was a simple , intermittent, dry joint, please do not bother reading, touching the dry component pads actually intermittently connected it up------END OF EDIT}Do you know why my GBJ2510 diode bridges died? Two of these diode bridges were used together in the bridge of a Boost PFC. (as attached).
[EDIT...please see post #4, which just might be what the problem is. END_OF_EDIT]
This boost PFC has only ever been powered up with a 3.15A Mains fuse in it. (Load has never yet been above 7W). This PCB has only ever been powered up with mains through a 47R inrush resistor. (later shorted out by relay)
I have now removed the two GBJ2510’s from the PCB, and their heatsinks.
Mains here is some 225VAC from my cheap DMM.
The Boost PFC has previously powered a 7W load at the correct 390V.
Previously, when I did the manual inrush into the PFC output caps, I did notice that the output caps only went up to some 300VDC…..but I confess to suspecting it may have been due to the scope being out of cal, and to be honest , at the time, the PFC FETs blew up, which distracted me away from the 300V reading.
I then fixed the Boost PFC (It seemed that I possibly had accidentally desoldered the current sense connection).
With the Boost PFC fixed, I then adjusted the control card signal resistors for the intended, ,future increased load of 250W…….Then again I powered up, (with just 7W load) through the 47R inrush resistor, but noticed only some 70VDC on the PFC output caps. The drop in voltage was occurring in the bridge diodes (GBJ2510). I had the full correct mains VAC just upstream of the bridge.
I removed the two GBJ2510’s, and find that they both still DMM as a diode bridge. However, when you go onto resistance range of 20k, and probe with red to anode and black to cathode, they show some 15k of resistance (with the probes the other way they show open circuit). All the bridge diodes do this, on both GBJ2510’s. Even stranger, is that when you switch to 200k resistance range, they then show as some 90k. (and again open circuit with the probes swapped round).
Do you know how this could have happened? These are 1kV rated rectifier bridges.
There is a MOV at the mains input.
MOV (V275LA10P)
https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2608835.pdfGBJ2510 diode bridge
https://www.mouser.co.uk/datasheet/2/115/ds21221-2940656.pdfThe diff two mode chokes are very low value at 46uH (just 13 turns round three stacked MS-090125-2 sendust torroids). The common mode choke is just 2 x 6 turns round a MS-090125-2 torroid. (This SMPS is prototype only, to get to the intended 2kW power level.
I am now just wondering if a big mains transient did indeed take out the diode bridges, and maybe that’s what killed the FETs too. (it’s a dual Boost PFC).