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Originally Posted by MPaulHolmes
ACControlAndDriverBoard is designed to plug right into 600v 50amp igbt half bridges up to 1200v 600amp IGBT half bridges. The pin spacings are the same for all of them.
Powerex Product: CM600DY-12NF
So, no wiring is required for the gate and emitters. The collector is either the B+ tab, which requires a wire, or is the high side emitter tab (E1 = C2). So, a wire is intended to be used for C1 and C2 holes (for desat detection). |
Ok, I'll add another connector for each phase output and **at least** one for the B+ bus. Is the situation dynamic enough that
local measurement for desat is necessary? Should I put that connector close to each group of TO-247's as well?
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Yes, you can run multiple resistors. For this design, it's 2 gate resistors per IGBT. One for turn on and one for turn off. So, you would have 3 turn-on resistors going to the 3 separate high side mosfets and 3 turn-off resistors going to the 3 separate low side mosfets (if you were using 3 high side and 3 low side). There's around 8 amps (continuous!! lol) of drive current available for those npn and pnp package transistors, so I'm sure you could probably do 12amp peak.
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I haven't looked yet, but 8 amps should be appropriate for 3 TO-247's rated at 100A, right?
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The reason there is the NPN -PNP totem pole arrangement is because this was required to boost the 2.5amp from the SOIC driver, but still maintain the soft turn-off feature of the driver when desat is encountered. If we just dumped those, and put a regular old mosfet/igbt gate driver in place of the npn-pnp totem pole, a desat event would turn off the igbts in like 8nsec, which would possibly destroy them.
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Gotcha, thanks!
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A separate back to back zener diode pair for each mosfet would work, but the 500amp controller just uses one TVS diode right at the gate driver (before the gate resistors). However, Otmar says the protection diodes should be right at the legs of the igbts or mosfets (if we are talking to-247).
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I'll try to use Otmar's suggestion on this; hopefully there's space.
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The input voltage is 24v. The attiny pushes and pulls the gate drivers, which cause the output to be close to 24v too, after it gets rectified. Then, you do this:
+24v ------------- 3k resistor ----------< 8.2v zener ---------- 24v ground
Then, we call +24v "+15v", and we call the spot between the 3k resistor and the 8.2v zener cathode "emitter", and we call the 24v ground "-8.2v". The output voltage is limited to no more than a total of +24v by a 24v zener from +15v down to -8.2v (also known as +24v down to 24v ground). There is no regulation on the output voltage other than keeping it <= 24v. The voltage drops as the current increases, but in practice, the current just never goes all that high, so the voltage doesn't sag much on the output. Generally, the real voltages for switching are around -8.2v up to 15.8v or something like that. Sometimes 15.3v, etc...
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Ok, I think I got it. So the 3K resistor just limits current; it doesn't have anything to do with the output voltage from it's voltage drop...
If the switches required different voltage - example: ( +20 turn on, -5V turn off )
http://www.wolfspeed.com/~/media/Fil...2M0025120D.pdf
Then one could change the zener diode if necessary. Also could the Attyiny modulate the pulses - I assume they're 50% - for something less than 24V?
Thank you very much for the info; I'll post a schematic for the gate drive here when I get done.
- E*clipse