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Registered Member #76
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 10:04AM
Location: Hemer, Germany
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okay i searched the web but, nothing i can use,. i have some big 1200volt igbts here and wanted to build a huge isstc , .here in germany we have a 230volt line so i need a voltage tripler to get the full power out of these bricks. now i was searching for a good circuit for a voltage doubler or tripler but i only found example shematics nothing prooved and stable. with those voltages and currents i definately dont want to "try something" out . so what do you guys usually use in your drsstcs or sstcs? what type of diodes and caps should i use?
hope someone can help me, never needed a doubler or tripler before
Registered Member #146
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
Location: Austin Tx
Posts: 1055
You only need a doubler for about 650VDC on 1200V IGBTs. The voltage spikes can be large, so you need the headroom. I would not exceed 800VDC unless you have a really good layout, including snubbers, and special low inductance bus caps with a laminated bus layout etc.. The style of layouts that most DRSSTCs use would not be suitable.
Registered Member #76
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 10:04AM
Location: Hemer, Germany
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mh, okay, everything i wanted was a answer of someone who already build and used a voltage doubler, so he can tell me something about a good capacitor value or current and voltage rating of the diodes,
im so sorry that im not the best in math and cannot calculate everything on my own.
Registered Member #146
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
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For a large coil, the doubler and the DC bus caps are the same physical caps. Id suggest each cap be at least 350V and 5500uF or bigger probably. The diodes have to be rated for 700VDC, and at least the line current you plan on using (so maybe 20-40A).
The circuit that you want to use is the Greinacher doubler circuit (a) from the link Madgyver provided.
Registered Member #162
Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 3140
If you rectify 230 Vac you get about 320 V dc A 320 Vdc supply for a CFPR Invertor ('Royer' or zvs) gives about 700 Vrms that's about 1 kV peak, just nice for your 1200 V IGBTs. No need for a doubler/tripler etc.
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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I used the Greinacher doubler as above to give 600V DC for my OLTC2. I used two 1200uF @ 400V inverter grade electrolytics, and a 92A @ 1200V dual SCR brick, driven by a home-made phase angle controller, in place of the two diodes.
Using SCRs like this allows the voltage to be adjusted without lugging a variac around. But of course plain diodes (with a PIV of at least 800V) and a variac work fine too. I drove the early prototype with a 10A variac and half of a 35A @ 800V bridge rectifier.
Later I added an iron cored choke in series with the AC input, to try and improve the power factor somewhat. The hardest I ever ran it was drawing about 30A RMS @ 240V AC and giving about 7A @ 550V DC out.
I was happy with this arrangement, it never gave any trouble at all. I had a 20A breaker on the incoming line, and if the DC bus got shorted, this always seemed to pop before the SCRs did.
So I'm going to use the exact same circuit for "Odin" except, like Ward says, I won't add any extra capacitors, because the main cap bank (4x 3300uF 420V in series/parallel) can also function as the doubler caps. I'll also not bother with the overcurrent trip that used to shut the SCR gate drive off.
If I wanted more voltage, I think I would scrap the rectifier and build a boost PFC like Ward's, rather than a tripler. If I wanted more power, I'd go to a 6 diode bridge running off 400V 3 phase. If I "Really" wanted to go nuts, I'd feed the 3 phase rectifier into the boost converter. But I think I'll have my hands full even with 600V and 4kW.
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How do you go about figuring out the values for the capacitor values? I want to get about 660V (voltage quadrupler) and the current will not be more than 200ma- is there a formula for this?
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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The formula I used was "The biggest caps I can get for cheap" Your tube circuit is low power, but because it's a quadrupler it needs bigger caps than a doubler would have, to avoid too much volt drop. I'd say 220uF or 470uF would be about right.
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