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Steve N. wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... You're probably right! I did actually try to rip the heating element out of a 2kW electric fire to use as just such a test load, but the manufacturers had used some really devious sort of screw heads to keep the two casings together. :-( Failing some serious resistance wire, the only other 'to hand' option is to hook up the HF mobile and key-up; but I don't have a sufficiently gutsy dummy load or antenna to dump 100W into, I'm afraid. :-( Paul, Welcome to the world of design... No need to make a load to measure the ripple on the caps. You can calculate it. I did this long ago for a 5V 28 amp supply I re-wound from a 28V 5A supply. You have to know that for a capacitor, I = C * Dv / dt. When the 60 HZ wave drops, the diodes drop out of conduction and the filter cap is now supplying *all* the load current...and the voltage drops in the usual capacitive nature following that formula. I don't recall if you said the current, but...if you will be drawing, say 20 amps - you have the "I". If you have a "C" you plan to use from the old design, you have "C". Dt is the discharge time between the (full-wave) peaks from the bridge rectifier. This is 8.333 ms. minus the conduction time. I forget the typical conduction time I have seen, but I'll assume 5 ms max-load (the diodes don't conduct very long, typically.and.and the peak current is pretty high to boot!) -- leaving 3ms for the discharge time. Then Dv is the ripple, or more accurately, the sag. Also, consider that the peak voltage will be lower when loaded due to the transformer winding resistance and diode drop and anything else in there. Since this is a full wave rectifier if we had ideal diodes they would be conducting all the time (IE: one SET of diodes if a bridge or one diode if a "CT" type rectifier). Also we have a SINE wave output, but in a FW the negative cycle is flipped up. So your formulas don't reflect the varying duty cycle out of the rectifier (it's not ON 5 ms and off 3 ms, but goes from 0 to full voltage following a sine function). I guess you can use the RMS function to determine the "effective" on and off times, and your guess is probably ballpark enough to be correct. So, solving for Dv. Dv = (I* dt ) / C If you wanted 20 amps and had 20,000 uF, You'd have (20*.005)/.02 or 3 volts of sag. BUT! This assumes *normal* line voltage. If you DO measure as some of the others suggest, remember that you'll be using whatever line voltage is at the time. Consider when there is a brown out. Pick a low-line voltage, say 105 volts and use THAT voltage, Or the ratio 105/120 and adjust your output voltage number accordingly when calculating things. You have to make sure that *Everything* that you want to power from this voltage has enough voltage at the low point; series pass & Driver & driver's driver (perhaps the 723). Finally, what I did to keep the required overhead to a minimum and, as a result, the dissipation in the series pass transistors lower (and guarantee poorer brown-out protection, unfortunately), I *added* a few extra, lighter gauge wire turns to the *OUTPUT* winding to supply the 723 and driver stuff. Add the same number of turns to each side of the secondary (put one and measure the volts-per-turn to figure out how many) and put a diode from both of them (pointing to) to another smaller filter cap. This requires, of course two more diodes and filter cap, but they're smaller. You also have to watch the ripple in the same way. Hope this helps. Let me know @arrl.net 73, Steve, K9DCI |
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13.8V high current power supply
"Ken Scharf" wrote in message .. . That Steve N. wrote: Paul, Welcome to the world of design... No need to make a load to measure the ripple on the caps. You can calculate it. ... You have to know that for a capacitor, I = C * Dv / dt. When the 60 HZ wave drops, the diodes drop out of conduction and the filter cap is now supplying *all* the load current...and the voltage drops in the usual capacitive nature following that formula.... Saying: Since this is a full wave rectifier if we had ideal diodes they would be conducting all the time (IE: one SET of diodes if a bridge or one diode if a "CT" type rectifier). Ken, This is true only without the capacitor filter. When you add a capacitor input filter, the diodes (ideal or not) only conduct for a rather short part of the input cycle. Line current is in the form of rather short current pulses as a result. This is a concern for the power company, by the way. It also keeps the power company wave form rather flattened on the top, because of all the supplies on the grid drawing current only there. You can see and measure this on a supply if you have the capability. The cap will charge, pretty much to the peak. When the sine wave then drops rapidly toward zero, the caps "hold" that voltage and are now are supplying the load current. The voltage on the cap drops according to the formula. (the action of the regulator keeps the current at this point constant, so *THAT* formula applies) Also we have a SINE wave output, Not once you add the capacitor input filter. You need the cap filter to (help) keep the output at the constant DC we desire. but in a FW the negative cycle is flipped up. *** Yes and therefore you have 120, half cycles per second (in the US). That is 8.33 ms period (one peak every 8.33 ms). Draw a full wave rectified waveform, then plot some capacitor descharge on it and you will see that for a peak-to-peak ripple of, say, 10% the time the cap is charging is rather short. This is the diode conduction time. So your formulas don't reflect the varying duty cycle out of the rectifier (it's not ON 5 ms and off 3 ms, I did mention that the diode conduction-angle duty-cycle does vary, but this is due to load current varrying - and it is predictable We only have 8.33 ms per pulse and the conduction angle is only 1-5 ms. depending on load. This *IS* the way linear supplies work. In theory and practice. That's why *that* formula works. If there was current in the diodes all the time, it would imply thta your capacitor filter ripple would be the full supply voltage. but goes from 0 to full voltage following a sine function). Again, this is only without a capacitor input filter, if you refer to the output voltage. I guess you can use the RMS function to determine the "effective" on and off times, and No, this does not apply to this situation. RMS refers to the effective voltage, not diode conduction times. If you look at the *sine wave* waveform itself (full-wave rectified, in this case) then you can determine the charge and discharge waveforms and that is what I have described. If you can get a scope and do some real measurements for yourself, you'll see I am correct. For light loads on the power supply, the diode current pulses are quite short ~~ 1 ms and go only to around 5 with a heavy load. your guess is probably ballpark enough to be correct. No guess here. What I described *is* the way it works. We do it when designing linear supplies all the time. You can see it with a scope. There are drawings on the web to show you what I tried to describe in words. I didn't read all of the following web pages, so one may be easier to understand than the others. The first shows *JUST* the rect waveform of which you speak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifiers However, the rest of these show a capacitor input filter and the resulting waveforms and conduction characteristics I described. The following has a movie showing very well and slowly, how the "Smoothing" capacitor works: http://www.greenandwhite.net/~chbut/rectification.htm Ignore all the formulas in the following and about 2/3 of the way down are waveforms: http://www.visionics.ee/curriculum/E...ectifier1.html Perhaps a simpler explanation: http://www.play-hookey.com/ac_theory/ps_filters.html I applaud your desire to help Paul's understanding, but you missed here. 73, Steve, K9DCI So, solving for Dv. Dv = (I* dt ) / C If you wanted 20 amps and had 20,000 uF, You'd have (20*.005)/.02 or 3 volts of sag. BUT! This assumes *normal* line voltage. If you DO measure as some of the others suggest, remember that you'll be using whatever line voltage is at the time. Consider when there is a brown out. Pick a low-line voltage, say 105 volts and use THAT voltage, Or the ratio 105/120 and adjust your output voltage number accordingly when calculating things. You have to make sure that *Everything* that you want to power from this voltage has enough voltage at the low point; series pass & Driver & driver's driver (perhaps the 723). Finally, what I did to keep the required overhead to a minimum and, as a result, the dissipation in the series pass transistors lower (and guarantee poorer brown-out protection, unfortunately), I *added* a few extra, lighter gauge wire turns to the *OUTPUT* winding to supply the 723 and driver stuff. Add the same number of turns to each side of the secondary (put one and measure the volts-per-turn to figure out how many) and put a diode from both of them (pointing to) to another smaller filter cap. This requires, of course two more diodes and filter cap, but they're smaller. You also have to watch the ripple in the same way. Hope this helps. Let me know @arrl.net 73, Steve, K9DCI |
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