EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply Table of Contents Revision History ........................2 Safety Instructions ........................3 Introduction ..........................3 Features ........................... 3 IC`s General Description ......................3 How to design an application ....................4 Given board specification ......................4 Calculating the Current ......................
Please take caution - the board operates at 405V DC and is directly plugged into the power network. Operating this Board requires an isolated transformer! The EVA4201/4301 was designed to help understand and evaluate the features of two Power Factor Correction IC`s. Used external devices are standard components chosen for safe operation and do not represent a completely fine-tuned OEM application.
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply How to design an application 4.1 Given board specification PE4201/PE4301 The board setup in the original state has the following specification parameters. The following chapters show, what has to be changed to design an active PFC supply towards different parameters. Please take caution when calculating.
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EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply PE4301 The input power: 86,96W η 86,96W The input current: 0,40A ACin_LL 110V 86,96W 0,33A ACin_HL 265V The ripple current ∆I is set to 20% ∆I 0,40A 0,11A ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗...
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply 4.3 Inductor PE4201 For CRM operation, the maximum 'on' time and the maximum 'off' time control the lowest frequency. The minimum CRM inductance L at low and high line input voltage can be calculated as follows: (CRM) −...
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply ∗ ∗ (21) ∆I ∗ 110V 0,615 ∗ ∗ (22) 21425 µH CCM_LL 40kHz ∗ 265V 0,074 ∗ ∗ (23) 7536 µH CCM_HL 40kHz 0,093A ∗ For high line voltage and high output power the inductor set to 8000µH. The switching frequency at low line voltage obtains as: ∗...
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EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply 2.5 Output Bypass Capacitor PE4201/PE4301 The bypass capacitor on the output of the circuit has to be able to suppress the ripple of the switching frequency and the residues of the full-wave rectified input frequency (2 * f (28) ∗...
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EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply The figure shows the input voltage (230V~) in orange color, the current (I =0.20A) in blue color and the ripple of the output voltage in green color (only AC, C13=47µ, C6=0.1µ). The ripple is lower than 20V peak-to-peak (<5%).
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply Input Filter PE4201/PE4301 A high-frequency has to be applied in the primary AC input to reduce reflections from and to the power grid. Figure 1: Input Filter The capacitor C following the bridge rectifier provides the peak current and reduces the voltage ripple. This is typical for a 330nF or for a 470nF capacitor.
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply 6,028k (34) 2 π 2 π 100Hz 220nF ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ R4=5,6kOhm shall be chosen here. The frequency of the second pole shall be at about 1/7 of the switching frequency. This defines the capacitance of C 4,6nF (35)
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply In the range up to 80W, there is no need to use a bypass diode; the current depends on C in addition with possible start current on the load. In case of C 47µF there is a max.
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply 5.1 Evaluation Board Specifications AC Line Input voltage ........85 Vac - 265 VAC AC Line Frequency .......... 47 – 65 Hz Switching Frequency in the middle ....40 – 170 kHz Output voltage ..........
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply Operating 6.1 Caution The Evaluation board has been designed to operate between 40VAC and 80VAC input power grid voltages and 405VDC output voltage. Powering the board outside specified operating conditions will destroy devices and might cause severe damage and harm people.
EVA4204/4301 User Guide Evaluation Board for 80W PFC Supply List of Abbreviations Abbreviation Explanation AC-IN Input Voltage Input Current Bill of material Continuous Conduction Mode Capacitor for EMI Capacity of the gate (MOSFET) Capacitor for reduction of HF- transmitting Output Capacitor Output Capacitor out2 Cap.
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