Various aspects of home brew inverters


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Tinker

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Joined: 07/11/2007
Location: Australia
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Posted: 10:14pm 25 Mar 2017      

Gary, your comment about adding capacitors caused the mosfets fail is strange. Perhaps your capacitors are suspect?

While I was testing with my 4 mosfet rig and a 3 speed desk fan on full power as load, I could observe little spikes near the crossover point. Adding a 10,000uF capacitor completely removed those spikes.

Another thought, on the EG002 schematic they show interlocking transistors between the 8010 and gate drivers. They put them there for a reason I assume. Worthwhile to test this?

Everything is on hold here, still waiting for toner transfer paper so I can make a different PCB for my inverter mosfets.
Klaus