[SOLVED] Single capacitor half bridge converter

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Hello everyone,
I have a cheap AC-DC SMPS board with 230V in and 54V-20A DC out.
There are only two MOSFETs driving the transformer primary and the FETs are in a half bridge configuration. There is a total of 1000uF HV bulk capacitor that is not center tapped. I suspect there is also a 5uF capacitor in series with the primary winding of the transformer.
What type of half bridge configuration is this that has non-split capacitor configuration?
I also did Chat-GPT and it seems to tell me a lot about this type of configuration and also gave me a comparison table. But I am unable to find any information about it on the internet.
Here is a screenshot from CHAT-GPT

Please give your feedback. Is this type of configuration in use?
Thank you
 

In other words you didn't analyze the circuit throroughly, do you want us to guess what the circuit is? A small capacitor like 5 uF is probably a series resonant capacitor. If it's used in combiaton with a large DC link capacitor, there's no significant behavioral difference to a "split capacitor" configuration.

Without referring to an correct circuit description, the ChatGPT answer is inappropriate and misleading. Spare us the gibberish.
 

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