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Hi,
I designed a 12V – 360V push-pull converter. At the very first startup, the circuit did not start. The hiccup mode was activated and got stuck in it. I had not connected a capacitor to the RES pin, so the CBC was disabled, which caused the hiccup mode to activate immediately. As a test, I soldered a 100nF capacitor to the RES pin. With this, the converter started up and worked properly, but the soft-start time was very short, as shown in the following measurement:
The above measurement was taken with a 100mA load in DCM operation.
My design goal is to achieve at least 150ms soft-start time.
The circuit is shown below:
For sizing C7, I used equation (10) from the datasheet. How can I increase the soft-start time?
I was considering placing a PNP transistor between SS and COMP according to the "snvaa44" document. However, as far as I know, in the LM25037 the PWM signals only start once the SS level reaches 1V. The COMP operating voltage can be around 1.2V. This means that by the time SS reaches 1V, the PNP transistor might not be able to perform its function properly.
My other question is: does the soft-start time depend on the load?