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Registered Member #3926
Joined: Fri Jun 03 2011, 08:32PM
Location: UK.
Posts: 525
My parts for Farnell arrived today, so I built a ZVS driver, and it's getting hot I made the standard circuit, but had to substitute the 10K resistors for 15K resistors, as I unknowingly ordered out of stock 10K resistors. I'm using IRFP260N's, and they get hot, as does the inductor, but nothing else. I'm also using gate drive instead of zener diodes, gate drive is 9V, 1Amp(I suspect this is the cause). What is causing it?
Registered Member #3926
Joined: Fri Jun 03 2011, 08:32PM
Location: UK.
Posts: 525
Sadly my IRFP260N, just blew, I really must use zener diodes, alot simpler.
I can't find where my circuit is failing currently, I have 15v in, not separate gate drive supply, and the primary flyback coil just gets hot, as far as I can tell no voltage is coming out of the drains and I'm using new 25N120 N-channel IGBT's, I have used these before with the same setup and it has worked. What could it be?
Just rebuilt the driver, no gate drive, 19v in, primary coil gets hot, frequency is 150khz, no output on flyback. ? This time I'm not using the 15kohm resistors also I'm using 40n10s now.
Bit of an update, the main cause of circuit failure as others have said is insufficient gate drive voltage I just rewound an audio transformer to 12vDC rectified/smoothed, and now the circuit gives output, I'm inputting 19vDC at 3.5A, and with 5+5 turns the circuit does not pull more than 2A, somthing is wrong here, any ideas, I'm not using the 15K resistors I have used earlier.
Circuit works perfects now.
With 5+5T the primary was heating alot as was the cap bank, not with 10+10, the output is brilliant, my 48v supply drops to 29V and pulls 20amps, also messed around with capacitor values, currently my meter is reading the bank at 0.540uF, I've used different inductors, and found the best. The power being inputted is really pushing these FET's, they don't get even the slightest of warm, they are only 40n10's too. I think I'll experiment with IGBT's, I'll have to rectify my arc welder for more power.
Registered Member #152
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 03:36PM
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well.. do you use a heatsink for the transistors ?
Just asking, I have had people tell me that their transistor is getting too hot, and just then they asked me "the transistor has no heat sink is this ok?"
Registered Member #3926
Joined: Fri Jun 03 2011, 08:32PM
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Yes, decent size too, I have changed 40n10's to 25n120's, because I knew the 40n10's would not last long on 48v ( They are only 100v FET's) while it worked with the 40n10's output was very good, I tried doing induction heating, and they failed. Now with the 25n120 it works again but the arc is screeching and the left IGBT get's hot, any way to troubleshoot this, maybe for IGBT's the circuit must be modified? I'm also going to experiment with 30n60a4d's block IGBT's, as I have seen other use these on youtube. What values must I change to use IGBT's?
Registered Member #3637
Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
Location: Buffalo, NY
Posts: 1068
What I would recommend doing is ordering 12 volt zeners somewhere, and building the circuit as it is shown in the diagram. Ebay can help out with parts you can't find elsewhere, and try not to substitute too much.
You technically "can" use other types of diodes in place of the UF4007's, but it's not recommended... The way it's built is the way it's proven to work so.
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