Questions tagged [ripple-current]
Small unwanted residual periodic variation of the direct current (dc) output
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Inverter - parallel DC link capacitor bank ripple current rating
I'm sizing the DC link capacitors for a 3-phase, 48V, 3kW traction inverter aimed at driving PMSM motors. I'm designing around a minimum ripple current rating of ~50Arms. I'm considering using ...
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Should I measure ripple current on a replacement capacitor of lowered ESR?
I've changed an 820 μF capacitor on the output of a 1.05 V linear regulator which feeds the PCH (Intel's Platform Controller Hub), or "southbridge", on a PC motherboard. It's working fine ...
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Looking to see if the ripple current specification for capacitor is being met
I am choosing input capacitors for a buck regulator. According to the regulator and based on my design, the maximum ripple current will be 4.7A, which is based on the input and output voltage as well ...
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Can I substitute a capacitor with the same rated capacity and voltage but a lower inductance and higher rated ripple current for a mobo repair?
I have an early to mid 2000's motherboard that I am trying to restore. It looks to be mostly in good condition but a blown radial electrolytic capacitor might be causing trouble. From the placement of ...
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Coupled inductors for multi-output buck
I see coupled inductors are generally used in multi-phase design to take advantage of current ripple cancellation.
What is really the advantage of coupled inductor in multi-output buck or multi-output ...
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Can we use electrolytic capacitors on IC power rails?
Can we use bulk electrolytic capacitors on the power rails of an IC? I know that we will use bulk capacitors in switching regulators at input. Can anyone explain why or why not and how to find ripple ...
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Spike and Ripple Currents in PWM-driven DC Motor
I intend to drive a DC motor through an H-Bridge with PWM Control. Therefore I'm using only NMOS powerfets to drive the bridge. However I'm facing an issue with the current at the MOS gates. As you ...
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Calculate peak input current of switch mode power supply
I have the following problem.
MY ATTEMPT
The switch-mode power supply looks like it's a boost converter. I found that the DC-transfer functions for the boost converter to be:
\$\frac{V_C}{V_{...
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Techniques for measuring the ripple current of SMD electrolytic capacitors
I am currently creating a test plan for an AC/DC converter (90VAC...264VAC -> 12VDC) I've been working on. Since the output electrolytic capacitors are of SMD type, I am trying to come up with ...
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Capacitor specifications, ripple current and life
What does the "Ripple current" and the "Life (in Hours)" in electrolytic capacitors specifications mean?
My intuition says it's the highest current it can handle and it can operate for that hours (...
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SMPS Input/Output ripple current and ripple voltage
I found a presentation regarding SMPS and found this slide.
I am not totally able to grasp the concept of the input and output ripple current.
In the above image I have the following questions :
I ...
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Are all linear regulators bad at filtering input ripple? (or really as bad as Dave suggests)?
Background
In EEVBlog #1116, Dave discusses a method to remove power supply ripple, and goes on to show (see 5:17 to 6:15) that you cannot count on linear regulators to remove your input ripple. He ...
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PT4115, where should I put output capacitor?
The PT4115E datasheet states:
Peak to peak ripple current in the
LED(s) can be reduced below 30% of the average
current, if required, by adding a capacitor across
the LED(s).
Can you confirm ...
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Ripple current at output capacitors
I was reading about the selection of output capacitors at the output of buck converters and found this Link
The accepted answer states that before I select an output capacitor, we must fix the ...
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Measuring Output Ripple Voltage Problem
This is a followup of my previous question.
Boost IC = NCV3063
Vin = 8V
Vout = 23V
Iout(max) = 250mA - (Load is a constant current circuit which is enabled at 200Hz)
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Bulk Capacitor Ripple Current as a Function of Capacitance
When you have a bulk capacitor on a time varying load, what is the relationship between the capacitance of the bulk capacitor, the ESR of the bulk capacitor and the ripple current through the bulk ...
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Selecting capacitor for SEPIC converter
I'm looking for an advice how to select capacitors for my SEPIC converter. I have done calculations, but I haven't find Cin, Cs and Cout yet. What seems like a problem is that there are few work ...
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Inductor current ripple ratio of buck boost converters
I have a question about this paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1210630
I have always thought that the maximum current ripple of a buck converter occurs with a duty cycle of 0.5. The paper ...
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Boost LED driver output spikes
I designed a boost LED driver based on TPS92691. It drives 56V 5A COB LED from 22-50V input. It works ok.
Oscilloscope shows small spikes on input (100mV), but large spikes on output (3V). The spikes ...
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What might this term (\$N_C\$) be, calculating ripple current for a buck converter output capacitor?
I'm reading through the datasheet for TI's TPS54302 step-down converter, and determining values for support components.
There is a calculation to determine ripple current for the output capacitor ...
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Understanding inductor and LED ripple current in LM3409
I am reading the datasheet of the LM3409, specifically section 9 "Application and implementation".
My intent is to understand how to calculate the values of the components needed for my specific ...
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What causes SMPS voltage ripple?
In many datasheets and application guides there is always an equation for ripple current, because it is fundamental to the operation of a buck or boost converter, but I never see a direct equation for ...
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How to convert Ripple Current spec to ESR?
It used to be that vendors like Digikey gave a cap's ESR value and not ripple current. Nowadays, it seems more report only ripple current and not ESR. What gives with that?
So what are we supposed to ...
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How to measure 120 Hz ripple current at the output of an LED driver?
I have a 50W LED driver and a programmable load. Please suggest a way to measure 120Hz ripple current! I have an oscilloscope and multi-meters.
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What will be the output ripple current per capacitor buck regulator?
I have a existing buck regulator design. Converter part number: TPS54340Q1.
Input voltage = 5 V.
Output voltage = 3.3 V
RMS ripple current is calculated as = 108 mA. (Don't worry too much about ...
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Ripple Current in Boost Converter for Nixies
I'm trying to design a power supply for 6 IN-8 Nixie Tubes (driven individually, not multiplexed). Each tube has a current draw of 2.5-4.5mA, so they pull around 30mA(max) total. The input voltages is ...
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Buck-Boost power supply I_ripple calculation
I'm not looking to get torn apart, just looking for a hand.
I can't remember exactly how to calculate the RMS Current required from the output capacitors or a Buck-Boost power supply and I was hoping ...
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How do you identify what capacitor to use to filter DC voltage ripples from a bridge rectifier? (capacitance, etc.)
Let's say I have reduced 220V 60Hz AC to 1.5V 750mA AC with a step-down transformer and used a bridge rectifier consisting of 4 IN4007 diodes to convert it to DC. How do I math this down?
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Is this inductor and caps a good choice for a buck converter?
I wanted to get together a simple and efficient 12V to 5V switching power regulator using only through-hole components that can be soldered to a nice protoboard. For my purposes, I need to provide 0....
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capacitor voltage ripple in buck converter
I am struggling with output voltage ripple calculation of the buck converter below. Firstly, I don't understand the following statement from the lecture. Can anyone explain it?
If the capacitor ...
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Ground plane directly underneath physically large 100 µH inductor?
I plan to use a physically large ferrite core inductor (Murata part "1410478C", 100 µH at 1 kHz) in a 12 V, 7 A DC filter circuit. It will be mounted on topside of a four-layer PCB ...
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Determining the input capacitance for a SMPS [closed]
I'm attempting to layout a SMPS using the LTC3703 chip, however the datasheet doesn't talk about the AMOUNT of input capacitance, just that it be low esr. However, it does talk about "bulk ...
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Ripple flowing through probes connected to the same point!
While trying to filter the ripple of my switching PSU, I've come to a phenomenon that
is probably well known to professionals, but seems absurd to me.
Admittedly, my scope is not of the highest ...
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How to protect constant LED current from ripples & clamps?
I need to develope a constant current LED Driver. The product must be portable and as small as possible. So I can not use SMPS, I have use AC/DC adapter as source. This is the AC/DC adapters output:
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Ultra low ripple constant-current LED driver design
I designed a LED driver(SMPS configuration) with ILD6150XUMA1 and below is the circuit. I used it with AC/DC adapter. The thing is, th optical system is ultra sensitive and ripple from the LED ...
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Measure indcutor ripple current in a SMPS
I need to measure the ripple current in a buck converter. In general, I add leads to the inductor and use a current probe. My issue now is that the inductor I am using has such a low inductance that ...
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How to estimate ripple current for PWM loads?
I'm buying some caps for a PCB which I'm designing, and I'm not quite sure how to estimate the ripple current they need to be.
This PCB is intended to switch about ~15A from 12V to 24V at ~100kHz.
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What is the problem with charging a (lead-acid) car battery with AC power?
The closest thread I've found (which didn't show up in the automated suggestions) was What happens if an AC voltage is applied to a battery?. Unfortunately, I felt like the answers were more aimed at ...
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Where can I find a stable AC to DC switching power supply?
I've purchased multiple 3V switching power regulators form Amazon and they all have spikes in the ripple. Here's an O-scope capture:
The spikes increase frequency depending on the load. Are these ...
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Capacitor Ripple Current - Frequency coefficient
I am designing a motor controller with a 11A max start load and 3A max continuous load. Looking for capacitors I found in this datasheet a "Frequency coefficient for ripple current", what is that and ...
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