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Registered Member #3964
Joined: Thu Jun 23 2011, 03:23AM
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hi All,
Wanted to ask what would be the highest frequency a CM300DY-24H can handle?? Cause I have a 200kHz drsstc, S.ward's UD1.3 driven, (no phase lead comp).. Planned to input power 500Watts (325VDC).
According to D.Sheet,
it has td(on) = 550ns tr = 180ns td(off) = 600ns tf = 350ns
Since my coil is 200khz, the time per cycle is 0.005sec I have totaled all the above time and reached about 1680nsec.. *in milliseconds.. 5ms per cycle and switching is 0.00168ms
I am thinking that all the delays etc are completely acceptable by the speed requirements,
Any comments about this will be highly appreciated.. THanks!
Registered Member #152
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your switching cycle is 5us, not 5ms, and switching speed is 1.7ms... this will work very bad, maybe not even at all (IGBT death), especially with no delay compensation.
Registered Member #3964
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how did you come up of that conclusion?? is there a computation for this? I mean what is the relation formula or rule of thumb here? It will be a great help if you can show it, thanks.
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Switching time at 200kHz is 5uS The IGBT can turn on and off in 1.68uS
Rule of thumb... Best practise... I got no idea, but would assume that a 200% rule ain't too bad to go by. Like if you want to look at a 25MHz signal, use a 50MHz scope. If you want to run a coil at 200kHz, use a IGBT suitable for atleast 400kHz. This is just guess work, careful study of each devices datasheet will tell you much more about losses vs. frequency etc.
Registered Member #3964
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5us will mean 2.5us per half cycle, if there is 1.68 needed for 1 square cycle, it is still in the required speed, although not in the region of 50% margin,. hmmm.. not to mention the delay introduced by the driver itself could add more delay. The losses you are telling is the heat made by the switch isn't it? how do we look for that loss? Thanks..
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look at it this way- if the igbt spends 1.7us turning on, then another 1.7us turning off, then its spending 60% of its time in the linear region where losses are huge. the rule of thumb i go by is: Fmax=1/((Ton+Toff+switching delays)*10)
Registered Member #3964
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with the turning ON delay, it only requires 0.73us and not the whole 1.7us. okay.. so i think I'll try to find another IGBT =) .. thanks for the info guys!
btw, what brick can you recommend for my coil as such? 200khz
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The delays are literally propagation delays; time from when the gate voltage hits zero to the time when the collector voltage starts rising. In hard-switched applications, they don't contribute towards losses. In a soft-switched circuit such as a DRSSTC, they contribute towards losses by causing the switching to deviate from ZCS, but the IGBT is not operating linearly during these delays.
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