Hi,
Sorry I wasn’t going to post, but then I thought…hang on..Vicor is good…people are going to want to know about Vicor…and also, I offer a solution here too….(admittedly I am not quite sure that the module will allow this, and its datasheet doesn’t say).
So……..We wish to put two Vicor DCM3623 modules in parallel and assure sharing of current between them. (40vin and vout = 48v at 10A total; 5A from each vicor DCM3623 module)
The DCM3623 module assures sharing by having a current limited output….if any DCM36723 starts to ship too much current, then its current gets limited, and its Vout drops, and the other vicor module then starts sharing the load.
The problem is that DCM3623 current limit can be anywhere from 100% to 143% of nominal Iout (6.67A) …that’s not good enough sharing for us…..therefore we have put a current monitor on each Vicor DCM3623 output and an error amplifier so that we can limit the iout of each module to 5A……………….So the attached schem should give 48Vout at 10Aout from 40Vin….5A coming from each vicor DCM36723 module…..hopefully nice sharing.
We simply make the external error amplifier pull down the TRIM pin of the DCM3623.
The DCM datasheet doesn’t state enough detail on the TRIM pin for us to know if this is workable?
Do you have an opinion of whether or not it is workable?
The datasheet (pg8) does say the bandwidth of the TRIM pin is 30Hz, but that doesn’t necessarily tell us if the attached schem would work.
DCM3623x50M53C2yzz datasheet:
http://www.vicorpower.com/documents/datasheets/DCM3623x50M53C2yzz_ds.pdf