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SSTC driver with SG3525 and TLP250: Damián Zuriaga Miguel's thesis

full H-bridge · SG3525 + 4× TLP250 · university thesis · 2018

An undergraduate thesis in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura), directed by Francisco Pérez Cebolla and Jesús Letosa Fleta. It is not a fork of any driver on the tree. It was built from circuit simulation (PSpice) and field simulation (FEMM) instead of an existing Tesla-coil schematic. A full H-bridge of FGH40N60 IGBTs, borrowed from the university's Electronic Engineering department, is switched by an SG3525 PWM controller through four TLP250 optocoupler gate drives. The drive circuit was adapted from a power-electronics course exercise originally meant for MOSFETs in a resonant induction-hob converter. It was built as a flexible test bench rather than a finished display coil, and the thesis is open about the gap between paper and hardware. The first PCB came back with a missing fuse footprint, a relay installed backwards and a solder bridge with under 1 mm of clearance, all fixed by hand with a Dremel. The stock 1 µs gate dead-time had to be cut to 750 ns on the bench before the bridge would even reach the required frequency. Dielectric-breakdown tests followed. Driving exactly at either resonance peak gave 14.4-25.3 kV across the secondary capacitor by calculation. The thesis's original result is that driving slightly off resonance, at the frequency of minimum primary current, gave a wider and more reliable sparking range (9-13 mm of gap, 28.3-36.8 kV) than either resonance peak on its own.

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