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UD2.1b: Steve Ward's Universal Driver with phase lead

+ phase-lead comparator · built & tested 26 Oct 2009 on the Magnifier Mk I · revised 2 Sep 2012

Ward's next generation added phase lead, so the bridge switches slightly ahead of the current zero and the IGBTs turn on soft. It was still being tuned three years after first light: comparator biasing, capacitor values matched to specific modules. Loneoceans' DRSSTC 2 ran this board, described as “a modified driver originally designed by Steve Ward, which uses Phase Lead for ZCS”.

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