Re: MOSFET/IGBT power supply?

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Original poster: "Eddie Burwell by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <eburwell-at-columbus.rr-dot-com>

True enough. I guess that should be just "it depends on the circuit". If he
uses a soft switching design that returns the left over energy to the rails
filter caps will be necessary.

Eddie Burwell


At 07:57 AM 6/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "colin.heath4 by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com>
>
>hi
>    the need for smoothing caps is arguable as when run through a six pulse
>rectifier. this is the main point of using the six pulse design
>the unit leaves you with quite a small amount of ripple as you are only left
>with the peaks of the waveform
>cheers
>colin heath