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Insulated-gate bipolar transistor, voltage-driven power transistor with fast switching times

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I have a 3-phase bridge rectifier (shown below). I am using an IGBT (STGE200NB60S) to limit the inrush current from the capacitors at start up. I also added the NTC thermisters to help with the inrush ...
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I have this half bridge made with IGBTs The driver sections are isolate from each other. In a current version of the pcb I didn't use any reference plane under the IGBTs (I used only local ground ...
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I'm designing a Marx generator with a solid state switch. I'm using IGBTs. Each IGBT has a 160 µF capacitive load. At the moment, I'm testing a generator that is powered with a 1kV and has three ...
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Recently I am planning to build an induction cooktop using half-bridge resonant topology. For a start, I took a look into ST evaluation board for induction cooking and wondering some part. Here is the ...
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I have a question regarding mounting THT power transistors (TO220, TO247...). I am building a output full bridge for a welder and I thought about not using PCB at all for the power terminals (D,S). It'...
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I am trying to understand simple RC thermal simulation to analyse the temperature rise in Rohm a 1200 V N-channel SiC MOSFET SCT3040KR. RC Cauer parameters are as depicted in the LTspice circuit ...
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Im trying to design a 3 phase Ac-Ac Pwm Chopper, I'm having difficulty designing the snubber network for the mentioned topology. Now I tried testing this circuit on bench , with my IGBT snubber values ...
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What is the IC in the picture?
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I have trouble choosing an IGBT gate driver for PMSM motor control application. We are planning to use a custom inverter with a custom PCB that has the FS150R12N2T7_B15 module. We do not know the ...
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I am working on a project that involves using isolated DC/DC converters to power gate driver ICs that will then switch on/off IGBTs. I have 9 DC/DC converters that will power 9 gate drivers each that ...
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I have trouble choosing an IGBT gate driver for PMSM motor control application. Can someone help me with the procedure? I went through few papers and I'm stuck with finding the external and internal ...
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This might be an elementary question - how can I determine the switching frequency of an IGBT e.g. IXGH15N120B? Will this IGBT be suitable for a switching frequency up to 250 kHz?
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I am testing a full bridge converter, consisting of four IGBTs. I encountered a strange behaviour, when I load the bridge with an inductive load, in the C-E voltage waveform there is some kind of a ...
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I built a trailing edge dimmer with IGBT, and I am driving it using Raspberry Pi 3. The circuit mostly works, but I noticed some strange behavior, that I can't put my finger on. Please could you help ...
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how to model igbt from the APT150GN120J datasheet. ...
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I have a circuit with a PWM signal controlling the gate of an IGBT. It's a dual IGBT module, SKM150GB12. A relay delivers voltage to the collector, 2, and the power is delivered to a battery, Vbat+ on ...
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For an IGBT module with the following characteristics, how can we calculate the rated power? I mean how much is the rated power for this module?
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I am planning on building a half bridge inverter for use as a tesla coil driver, using a couple of IGBTs, with gates driven by an IR2184 half bridge gate driver. According to the data-sheet, the ...
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I bought 5 FGS25N120ANTD IGBTs from my local vendor a while back. I was unable to identify the manufacturer, based on the logo. Can somebody help me out?
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Consider an IGBT chip within a power module. The top surface of the chip is often metalized by aluminum (with approximately 5 microns thickness) to bond some aluminum wires into the chip; I am hazy ...
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I am trying to charge a transmission line (Z0=4.4 ohms, propagation delay=1.4 ns) by a HV (1-1000 V, 600 mA) power supply through a 1700 V rated IGBT (S1). The charged transmission line gets ...
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I'm working on a project that requires charging and discharging a piezoactuator (150V, 1.5μF) extremely fast, IE total slew time allowed ~50μs (so somewhere around a 11A pulse). My background is in ...
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Does somebody know how I can detect a layer of IGBT modules in which a thermal failure, e.g., voids, cracks, delaminations of solder joints, has taken place? We know there is fatigue in both solder ...
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I'm using an IGBT in a wireless charger circuit as a swtich to send 'pulses' of power across the gap. I have 14V coming from the mosfet driver and I can see around 5v on the collector. I have the ...
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I am trying to use back-to-back MOSFETs/IGBTs to isolate my pulsed supply from my load. In theory, I will switch on the MOSFETs, and the pulsed supply will be attached directly to the load (but not on ...
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Does anyone know about this MOSFET or IGBT. It has been marked F 5503GM?
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An IGBT datasheet (https://www.infineon.com/dgdl/Infineon-IGB30N60H3-DS-v02_03-en.pdf?fileId=db3a30432a40a650012a46d3374d2b96) states that the minimum collector-emitter breakdown voltage V(BR)CES is ...
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I'm making a power supply with output around 2kV which can output 2-3 Amp of current. I want to use a potentiostat to keep voltage constant at output but I don't know how can I build it for such high ...
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I have a circuit with four IGBTs model IXYT25N250CHV up to 2.5 kV for a maximum working voltage of 1.5 kV Each IGBT is used to charge a capacitor from a photovoltaic (PV) system at different voltage ...
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I've examined IGBT driver in inverter in power generator (same model as presented here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owRSqmz2JQ). Inverter topology is H bridge with two chokes in series with 230V ...
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In a rather simple coilgun, the problem of freewheeling current from the coil is solved with a diode in parallel with the coil. The energy of the reverse current is wasted this way and even slows the ...
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Can we use a single channel HV IGBT gate driver with galvanic isolation which is previously mounted to derive a 1200V IGBT for 800V inverter application? Can the same gate driver drive a 1200V SiC ...
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Im Designing a Lead-Acid Battery charger, dont't needed that this charger it's the most sophisticated one. As you can see in the attached image, It only consist of a power transformer, a ...
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I am designing a single-phase half-bridge inverter with SPWM modulation on LTSpice, the SPWM control signal is 10 kHz and the reference sine wave is 50 Hz. Initially the simulation seems to work, but ...
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For some days I have been searching for some kind of compact, easy to use and well powered modules that can be drive BDC motor using H-bridge configuration which gate trigger signal from MCU will be ...
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I am trying to design an ignition coil driver using the FAN1100-F085 IC and a ISL9V3040x3ST−F085C IGBT. I am having trouble understanding the datasheet when it comes to the current sensing. It says to ...
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What is the actual reason behind IGBTs having lesser conduction losses than SiC MOSFETs? For the same application, I can see that an IGBT having the same power rating exhibits 10 times more switching ...
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I want to compute losses of an IGBT using datasheet information given by manufacturer. I want to calculate losses at 90 °C junction temperature while the information provided on datasheet is only for ...
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I am struggling trying to understand how a IGBT IKW15N120BH6 is implemented through a SUBCKT. The text file includes SUBCKT with functions and parameters, but it is not a typical construction of a ...
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IGBT is RGTH40TK65GC11 R1 and R2 are not populated TCC4426 is a Mosfet driver ic. Good 12 volt, 1 uS pulse on the Gate referenced to ground I've tried several IGBTs with 12 volt or lesser drive - no ...
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I am referring to the typical synchronous buck architecture: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab The cycle starts with M1 conducting and inductor current increasing (I_L &...
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A strange overheating problem: A TL494 PWM controller pulsating a TC4421 buffer IC, which is connected through a series 0.47uf capacitor to the primary of a toroidal transformer. The secondary is ...
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I have a three phase inverter that is driven with 3 IR2112 drivers board and microcontroller. I want to take advantage of the board and take two wires from these drivers pins to trigger one MOSFET/...
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I want to calculate heat sink thermal resistance of IGBT using parameters from a Datasheet. To do that, I have to calculate the total power loss first. It is conduction loss + switching loss. To ...
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So my friend has a broken TIG welder, an Lorch IT 250 GW to be specific. It's quite old, water cooled, has 250A continuous welding current and is powered by 3x230V mains. It was sitting for about a ...
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I'm tring to make fast turn-on circuit, so I use boosting P/S with 19V. And main P/S is 2V with 5A. The circuit is as follows. IGBT is connected by series, and gate-emitter voltages apply square ...
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The Vdrive voltage in the below circuit is supplied from rectified mains, including filter caps. The problem is that filter caps for this kind of application get expensive really fast, so I am ...
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I have never built such a system before and have already made several mistakes. I ask for help in drawing it up correctly so that it can start working. I intend to control the power supply to coil L1 ...
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Between IGBTs and power MOSFETs, which has greater input impedance/resistance? (This is a question I was asked during an interview.)
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I'm trying to model the switching losses of an IGBT in Simulink. I've researched however I can't find any literature on how to actually just model the switching losses? I was potentially thinking ...
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