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The upper mosfet gate driver will not be sufficiently isolated if tied directly to a large battery.
It may be galvanically isolated, but the entire battery will be driven up and down with the load, and there will be a lot of parasitic inductance and capacitance associated with that.
Those periodic glitches look like some kind of fairly low frequency resonance or reflection.
The more conventional way to go about this, is to use a switching power supply, coupled to the gate circuit only by a very small pulse transformer to transfer floating gate drive power. That can then be arranged to have very low capacitance to ground for the whole isolated gate driver section.
That could be produced by a high voltage sine wave, with just the top clipped off right at the load.
It would need only low side drive, either single ended or push pull.
A tuned tank circuit and the drive cable could then be made self resonant at 1mHz.
Much easier to get going with far fewer problems because there will be no really fast transient edges to cause trouble.
It may be galvanically isolated, but the entire battery will be driven up and down with the load, and there will be a lot of parasitic inductance and capacitance associated with that.
Those periodic glitches look like some kind of fairly low frequency resonance or reflection.
The more conventional way to go about this, is to use a switching power supply, coupled to the gate circuit only by a very small pulse transformer to transfer floating gate drive power. That can then be arranged to have very low capacitance to ground for the whole isolated gate driver section.
The rise time requirement are not very demanding about 100-200 nano sec is acceptable.
That could be produced by a high voltage sine wave, with just the top clipped off right at the load.
It would need only low side drive, either single ended or push pull.
A tuned tank circuit and the drive cable could then be made self resonant at 1mHz.
Much easier to get going with far fewer problems because there will be no really fast transient edges to cause trouble.