Thyristors & IGBTs circuit applications

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SCR Circuits

A half-wave series static switch is shown in Fig. 20.11a. Click to edit Master subtitle style If the switch is closed as shown in the Fig. 20.11b, a gate current will flow during the positive portion of the input signal, turning the SCR on.
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Resistor R1 limits the magnitude of the gate current. When the SCR turns on, the anode-to cathode voltage (VF) will drop to the gate circuitry. For the negative region of the input signal, the SCR will turn off since the anode is negative with respect to the cathode. The diode D1 is included to prevent a reversal in the gate current.

SCR Circuits

D1 and D2 establish a full-wave-rectifier signal across SCR1 and the 12-V battery to be charged. At low battery voltages, SCR2 is in the off state.

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With SCR2 open, the SCR1 controlling circuit is exactly the same as the series static switch control. When the full-wave-rectifier input is sufficiently large to produce the required turn-on gate current (controlled by R1), SCR1 will turn on and charging of the battery will commence. At the start of charging, the low battery voltage will result in a low voltage VR as determined by the single voltage-driver circuit.

As charging continues, the battery voltage rises to a point turn on the 11.0-V Zener and fire SCR2.

where VR is sufficiently high to both

Once, SCR2 has fired, the short-circuit representation for SCR2 will result in a voltage-divider circuit determined by R1 and R2 that will maintain V2 at a level too small to turn SCR1 on.

SCR Circuits
When the full-wave-rectifier input is sufficiently large to produce the required turn-on gate current (controlled by R1), SCR1 will turn on and charging of the battery will commence. At the start of charging, the low battery voltage will result in a low voltage VR as determined by the single voltagedriver circuit.

Click to continues, the battery voltage rises to a point As charging edit Master subtitle style where VR is sufficiently high to both turn on the 11.0-V Zener and fire SCR2. Once, SCR2 has fired, the short-circuit representation for SCR2 will result in a voltage-divider circuit determined by R1 and R2 that will maintain V2 at a level too small to turn SCR1 on.

Triac Circuit

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Simplified Triac Dimmer circuit on LED lamp drives.

Triac Circuit

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Triac is triggered by negative gate current. Along with an IGBT drive for the ignition circuit.

GTO Circuit

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GTO used for inverter circuit for motor drives. Take note of the Antiparallel diodes connected across each GTO leg in order to divert stored current from the motor going back to the supply. Aside from protection of the device due to lower breakdown voltage of GTO.

IGBT Circuit

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Standard inverter circuit using IGBT. Note the anti parallel diode applied.

IGBT Circuit

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IGBT used in standard DC/DC converter circuit.

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