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Steve Ward DRSSTC-3: half-bridge DRSSTC with primary current feedback

half bridge · primary current feedback added · Feb 2005

Half bridge of 40N60 IGBTs behind a 440 V TVS and a film capacitor, 37 inches of spark at first light. The driver gained primary current feedback here: cascaded current transformers at roughly 1:1000, an LM311 comparator into a 555 timer for over-current detection, and a 74HC109 JK flip-flop to synchronise the interrupter and feedback signals so a shutdown couldn’t land mid-RF-cycle. Ward counts DRSSTC-.5, two builds further down this chain, as his fourth. This one is his third.

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