Hi,
I am designing an inverter capable of driving 1500w load.In my design i am using Push pull Topology.In my design i am driving the primary side of the transformer using two MOSFETS.
The gates are controlled by PWM signals from PIC Controller.As of every design,on the secondary side i have a bridge rectifier and an LC filter.The output of the LC filter is connected to the H-Bridge for AC Generation.
I have attached the waveform which i obtained on the various stages of testing.I did probe all the wave forms of voltages at various pints on the Schematics.
Let me now discuss about the problem which i am facing now:
In the schematics you could see a bridge rectifier circuit and an inductor circuit attached.Before that let me give a short intro about the transformer i am using now.Its a push pull type transformer capable of taking a voltage input in the range of 24v to 40v.The leakage inductance was measured to be 14mH, at 100KHZ 1.0V by N2+N3 short circuited, and measuring N1+N4.The expected and calculated output is about 400v.
Presently i am testing by giving PWM signals with controlled width to the MOSFETS on primary side and thereby controlling the flow of the current to the primary coil.
As designing engineers ,all of us are familiar with the output of the bridge rectifier and LC filter.
A voltage of 24v was applied to the input of the Transformer for testing purpose.The transformer output was measured to have an AC voltage of 800v peak to peak.The rectified bridge rectifier output was observed as 400v (which was an expected output). The testing was done by connecting a bulb of 200w which is an inductive load. Later an L Filter was connected to the output of the bridge rectifier and the output was observed.I was really astonished to see the output.
Before explaining more about the issue,let us just go through the working of an inductor.
When a DC voltage is applied to an inductor, it suddenly shoots to voltage equal to the applied DC voltage.The shoot can be seen in the output due to the Back EMF generated in the coil because the inductor opposes the sudden change in the current.Slowly we can see that the peak decays and finally the inductor behaves as a short circuit or a zero ohms resistance path.
But if you just check the output across the inductor in my design, you could see Two peaks corresponding to the pulses on the bridge rectifier output in contradiction to the expected output of the L filter.
In my design the value of L and C were taken to be 56uH and 33uF each.
Giving more details regarding the two peaks,
First peak seem to have a shoot up to 500v and it can be seen that the peak decays slowly.But the voltage was observed to shoot again after decaying for a certain period.Please note that normal 200w bulb which is inductive in nature is connected as a load on the secondary side of the transformer at the L filter end.i couldn't find any explanation for such a phenomenon any where.I posted similar questions in Texas Instruments Forum too, but they were also not able to help me but they tried a lot.
Later the output of the LC filter was checked.I was able to get a clean DC voltage of 400v at the end of the LC filter.
I need to find the reason for such a behavior of the inductor because when i checked the output of the transformer at the same instant i found the change in waveform even at the transformer output when a L filter is attached to it.I mean two peaks in each pulses at the output of the transformer.
.
Some of my doubts regarding the issue is noted below:
1.Is it due to some inductive kick back from the bulb which i have connected for testing at the end of LC filter?
2.Leakage inductance of the transformer be the reason causing this phenomenon?
3.Is the inductor getting saturated while testing?
4.Is it due to some type of Harmonic Distortions i am observing such type of waveform across inductor?
What could be the possible reason for such an output? Please share all of your suggestions but the issue?
I am designing an inverter capable of driving 1500w load.In my design i am using Push pull Topology.In my design i am driving the primary side of the transformer using two MOSFETS.
The gates are controlled by PWM signals from PIC Controller.As of every design,on the secondary side i have a bridge rectifier and an LC filter.The output of the LC filter is connected to the H-Bridge for AC Generation.
I have attached the waveform which i obtained on the various stages of testing.I did probe all the wave forms of voltages at various pints on the Schematics.
Let me now discuss about the problem which i am facing now:
In the schematics you could see a bridge rectifier circuit and an inductor circuit attached.Before that let me give a short intro about the transformer i am using now.Its a push pull type transformer capable of taking a voltage input in the range of 24v to 40v.The leakage inductance was measured to be 14mH, at 100KHZ 1.0V by N2+N3 short circuited, and measuring N1+N4.The expected and calculated output is about 400v.
Presently i am testing by giving PWM signals with controlled width to the MOSFETS on primary side and thereby controlling the flow of the current to the primary coil.
As designing engineers ,all of us are familiar with the output of the bridge rectifier and LC filter.
A voltage of 24v was applied to the input of the Transformer for testing purpose.The transformer output was measured to have an AC voltage of 800v peak to peak.The rectified bridge rectifier output was observed as 400v (which was an expected output). The testing was done by connecting a bulb of 200w which is an inductive load. Later an L Filter was connected to the output of the bridge rectifier and the output was observed.I was really astonished to see the output.
Before explaining more about the issue,let us just go through the working of an inductor.
When a DC voltage is applied to an inductor, it suddenly shoots to voltage equal to the applied DC voltage.The shoot can be seen in the output due to the Back EMF generated in the coil because the inductor opposes the sudden change in the current.Slowly we can see that the peak decays and finally the inductor behaves as a short circuit or a zero ohms resistance path.
But if you just check the output across the inductor in my design, you could see Two peaks corresponding to the pulses on the bridge rectifier output in contradiction to the expected output of the L filter.
In my design the value of L and C were taken to be 56uH and 33uF each.
Giving more details regarding the two peaks,
First peak seem to have a shoot up to 500v and it can be seen that the peak decays slowly.But the voltage was observed to shoot again after decaying for a certain period.Please note that normal 200w bulb which is inductive in nature is connected as a load on the secondary side of the transformer at the L filter end.i couldn't find any explanation for such a phenomenon any where.I posted similar questions in Texas Instruments Forum too, but they were also not able to help me but they tried a lot.
Later the output of the LC filter was checked.I was able to get a clean DC voltage of 400v at the end of the LC filter.
I need to find the reason for such a behavior of the inductor because when i checked the output of the transformer at the same instant i found the change in waveform even at the transformer output when a L filter is attached to it.I mean two peaks in each pulses at the output of the transformer.
.
Some of my doubts regarding the issue is noted below:
1.Is it due to some inductive kick back from the bulb which i have connected for testing at the end of LC filter?
2.Leakage inductance of the transformer be the reason causing this phenomenon?
3.Is the inductor getting saturated while testing?
4.Is it due to some type of Harmonic Distortions i am observing such type of waveform across inductor?
What could be the possible reason for such an output? Please share all of your suggestions but the issue?