This is Sasaki in charge of power supply dock technology.

 

In this column, I would like to introduce some examples of problems related to power supplies that I encountered multiple times during various customer support sessions.



One day while I was providing technical support for DC/DC converters, I received a call from a customer who was using a large number of power supply modules, saying, ``There was a noise coming from the power supply module, and I would like you to come to my office as soon as possible.''

音がしているモジュールは1台だけ?

お客様のところへ訪問し回路図チェックしたところで、疑わしい点を見つけました。



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しかし、1台だけの発生とのことで発生頻度が小さく疑問が残る。

 

早速、実験室に移動し正常なボードと問題のボードを複数並べて検証を開始しました。



すると…

 

正常だと思っていたボードからも「キーン」と言う音が!



Me
Me

こちらからも音がするようですが…

customer
customer

これは音が小さいので問題ありません。

Me
Me

!?

よくよく調べてみると、検証をした全てのボードから音がしていました。

Me
Me

電源の周辺回路に問題がある可能性が高いので、念のため波形を確認しましょう。

そこでお客様に電源の入出力波形を確認してもらうと、スイッチング周波数とは別に、低周波で揺れている電圧が確認されました。



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Me
Me

(…原因はこれか!)

I looked into the circuit diagram including the filter related to the power supply circuit.

 

As a result, it was discovered that there was a problem with the design of the input filter.



音がする原因

約200mVp-pの約1200Hz(0.8msec)低周波発振

 

Normally, when designing an input filter, the power supply behaves as a negative resistance, so |ZS|<|ZI| must be maintained (a condition for stabilizing the power supply system).



In this customer's design, there was a problem with the filter's inductance value and the capacitor's ESR value, and the stabilization conditions were not met, causing vibration.



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電源システム安定化の条件

When we asked the customer for more details, we discovered that the DC/DC converter on the prototype board was also broken!

 

やはりこの発振が破壊の原因でした。



We redesigned the input filter based on our suggestions, and were able to prevent oscillation and resolve problems with the DC/DC converter.

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Me
Me

Power input filter design is very important

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