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Re: Paralleled Primaries / Separate Drive Circuit - SSTCs ? ? ?
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- Subject: Re: Paralleled Primaries / Separate Drive Circuit - SSTCs ? ? ?
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- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:56:30 -0600
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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@twfpowerelectronics.com>
Hi Captain,
At 01:31 PM 9/17/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone explored the use of paralleled primaries in SSTC use.
>
>For example, say I had two SSTC full-bridge power supplies each with
>their own dedicated primary winding and of course both supplies
>switching frequency are synchronized. Now i take those two independent
>windings and use them either interweaved, or top/bottom configurations
>and run both at the same time.
>
>Neglecting losses, I would assume that two 5kW power supplies combined
>like this would appear like one 10kW supply to
>the secondary coil. Is this correct???
Yes!
>If so, perhaps this is a way to increase power even more to a SSTC when
>the maximum impedance of one coil limitations
>are met.
The only caution I would have is that the two primaries will strongly
couple to each other. Thus, you need to open circuit one while the other
fires.
Cheers,
Terry
>Suppose I had four independent synchronized SSTC drivers with four
>independent primaries . . . Hmmm . . . . could
>get interesting!
>
>The Captain