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Solar Mike
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Posted: 09:48am 10 Feb 2026
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Thought I might have a go at making a MPPT Synchronous PV Charger using "E"-Opto mosfet drivers connected in an inter-lock arrangement. This allows the driver chips be mounted some distance apart and as close to the mosfets as possible. The interlock circuitry also sets the dead time between the H0-L0 devices, along with inputs for disabling the pwm if the cpu voltage rail drops for any reason and falling over to non-synchronous mode with low charge currents at very low duty cycles that would otherwise cause the buck circuit act as a boost driver, which tends to blow thing up.
Usually I use dedicated 1/2 Bridge driver chips, these are not always optimal when driving multiple mosfets due to the long trace lengths required, so I thought this circuit would be interesting to play with.

I will draw out the schematic, as some of it is a bit complicated, post bits of it here as I do so. The pcb is 204 x 170 mm 1oz copper, all high current areas are masked for tinning, this adds to the copper thickness and allows judicious soldering of extra copper wires to increase the current capacity, not sure what power this board will handle, should be ok at 40 amps, I now have a hand held thermal camera, so will be easy to pick out hot spots.

Here is the current layout:





Just noticed the bottom layer text is reversed, will fix that, a tick box has unchecked itself.

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Mike
 
Solar Mike
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Posted: 08:36pm 10 Feb 2026
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Schematic showing the mosfet interlocked drivers and isolated bias supplies, I haven't drawn in the mosfets nor the main power electrolytics, buck choke etc.



Mike
 
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