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Inducktion
Wed Mar 16 2011, 02:14AM Print
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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I know, there's Colpitts oscillator. There's Hartley, Armstrong, Royer, Clapp, Vackar oscillators.

What circuit, other than the royer, please, to create a good, high power oscillator, with a frequency between 200 khz and 1 mhz?
The one problem I've whined about before, is that all of these oscillators alot of the time don't have any values, or high power, or either. I would prefer to use a MOSFET or IGBT in any of these oscillators, but a transistor would work too. Vacuum tubes...Are sort of out of the question, as I do not own any tubes, suitable for the application I'm trying to make.
I'm experimenting with different oscillators to see which is the best in terms of component count, and efficiency.

Thanks!
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Dr. ISOTOP
Wed Mar 16 2011, 04:10AM
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Gate driver driving a full-bridge inverter.
Somewhat complicated, but well worth the work.
Flexible, stable, VERY high powers, gets you any frequency your semiconductors can handle.
$20 of IGBTs, $5 of IC's, and a couple dollars for a few small components will get you an inverter that can do 3KW+.
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Turkey9
Wed Mar 16 2011, 04:36AM
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I'd do what bwang says. But why in the world is this thread in the electromagnetic radiation section?
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Inducktion
Wed Mar 16 2011, 07:53PM
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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Turkey9 wrote ...

I'd do what bwang says. But why in the world is this thread in the electromagnetic radiation section?

Because induction heating involves electromagnetic radiation to heat the object up, does it not? :P

And what do you mean by gate drive circuit bwang? Could you show me a schematic of one that works?
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IamSmooth
Thu Mar 17 2011, 02:07PM
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Inducktion wrote ...


What circuit, other than the royer, please, to create a good, high power oscillator, with a frequency between 200 khz and 1 mhz?

I would prefer to use a MOSFET or IGBT in any of these oscillators, but a transistor would work too.

Anything over 50khz and you should not use an IGBT. The switching losses get too high and they will overheat. Use a mosfet at this point. I may be off on the cutoff point, but for 200khz a mosfet is the way to go.
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Turkey9
Thu Mar 17 2011, 04:11PM
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An induction heater uses induced currents to heat something up, or changing electromagnetic fields, not electromagnetic radiation. This section is for Lasers and Radios and such. This thread would get more attention in the General Science and Electronics section.

A gate drive circuit is just a circuit that sends a square wave into a GDT (gate drive transformer) that then controls the turn on of the half or full bridge. Uzzor has a general circuit here Link2 Note that he uses totem poles to drive the GDT. This works fine but a lot of people including myself prefer the UCC27322 or similar driver.
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