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Hi,
A customer’s engineer just left…..he was bringing up a 300W pushpull which he designed. So they sent it to us to finish off.
He had told them that he had some output from it.
300W, 24VIN, 32VOUT, 225kHz.
The schem attached is the essentials of it (he’s actually used sync rects but I left them off here, for brevity. (He has no snubber or TVS on either sync rects or pri fets.)
What got me the most was his feedback loop……it is as attached….a LT1431 used as an “opamp integrator”……then this drives into a digital isolator (ADum1280)…which goes into the COMP pin of the LTC3723 on the primary side.
LT1431 datasheet.
ADum1280 datasheet
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADuM1280_1281_1285_1286.pdf
LTC3723
I’ve told them it’s a defective schem, due to the feedback but they insist he knew what he was doing.
Do you know what he might have been trying to do? Was he on the verge of some superb new technique?
LTspice and essentials of schem attached
A customer’s engineer just left…..he was bringing up a 300W pushpull which he designed. So they sent it to us to finish off.
He had told them that he had some output from it.
300W, 24VIN, 32VOUT, 225kHz.
The schem attached is the essentials of it (he’s actually used sync rects but I left them off here, for brevity. (He has no snubber or TVS on either sync rects or pri fets.)
What got me the most was his feedback loop……it is as attached….a LT1431 used as an “opamp integrator”……then this drives into a digital isolator (ADum1280)…which goes into the COMP pin of the LTC3723 on the primary side.
LT1431 datasheet.
ADum1280 datasheet
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADuM1280_1281_1285_1286.pdf
LTC3723
I’ve told them it’s a defective schem, due to the feedback but they insist he knew what he was doing.
Do you know what he might have been trying to do? Was he on the verge of some superb new technique?
LTspice and essentials of schem attached
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