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Okay, my last thread on this disappeared when the site crashed, so here it is again. A list of Vladimiro Mazzilli ZVS driver parts. Just to ensure they are the right ones.. or that they would at least work as i don't want to spend the money needlessly. so any feedback is appreciated.
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That looks like what I ordered (scavenged) and mine worked: put out a nice thick arc, no thin blue line there.... My second one I wound my own coil and borrowed a meter to test it and it put out about 100+ Uh & I think it worked a bit better. I went a bit stronger on the power MOSFETS & felt better about running higher input.
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What MOSFET's did you end up using? i plan on running this around 50V so i need to keep everything fairly big, and yeah i was thinking of winding my own inductor.. i feel i need to order enough stuff from them in one order to justify the postage though. lol
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I really looked for you but it was pulled from some existing application and I can't read the MOSFET numbers. When I originally pulled them I used a magnifier to find the numbers and they were a bit tougher - marginally higher than 33A 200v as the IRFP250 is. Since your using MOUSER - it will be pretty easy; just look up "power MOSFETS" and find where the IRFP250 is on a page listing and find a model with greater voltage & current handling capabilities (they have page listing capabilities with "hunting" criteria.).
But realistically 200v & 33a is pretty tough. I think that also the price from MOUSER for the IRFP250 is like $4 and getting even tougher ones is a jump in price. It MAY be a better idea to just buy 4 or 6 of them in case you blow them out by some quirk. But if you think you won't go much higher than 50v & maybe 20a I wouldn't bother.
I have a Lamda power supply (I got real lucky!) that can put out up to 150a and wanted to try using as much as I could and not blow the flyback (came to about 25a and then it started to get VERY hot.)
I encourage you to wind the inductor. Especially if you can find a meter at some electronics store to "test" it in a demonstration (they are really expensive, usually a capacitive and Henry meter are in one unit). If you do actually buy an inductor at a given level (let's say 47uh) then you could go by a very rough estimate of wire size, turns, & size of toroid to give you an approximation of what you have....
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My current list, any input to whether its any good is welcome:
For the 680nf capacitor, will this work? - For the Fast diodes For the Zener diodes For the 470ohm 2 watt resistors For the 10k 2 watt resistors For the IRFP250's
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I don't see why that cap would not work.
And, I wasn't suggesting that you purchase from mouser. I was just supplying you with a list of parts that seemed to work well for me. You could purchase any of those items at a wide variety of places.
When you get all of your parts, there is a decent pcb design floating around on the forums.
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