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UCC28070 Input Current Osillation

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Has anyone experienced having the input current oscillating when using the UCC28070? We have followed the excel spreadsheet for resistor and capacitor values. it is a 1800 Watt design and the oscillation occur as we increase the ac input voltage from  0Vac. First we power the lvps then we put ~100Vdc on the pfc bus to allow the drives to start as the ac input is increased from 0Vac. We have about a 300 watt load on the bus.

The drives look good and it seems to work as expected until ~30Vac input. At that time a slight overshoot appears at about 30-40 degrees into the 120Hz cycle. As the input is increased the oscillations become worse and the entire input current waveform oscillates at around 1.6kHz. Both leaves are doing the same thing, also they do it if one side is disconnected and only one side is boosting.

Has anyone dealt with this type of behavior? Any help would be appreciated, we already invested considerable time into this IC and do not want to start over with something else unless absolutely necessary.

Thanks,

Steve

  • I think your issue is that you are faking out PFC enable with the 100V DC bus and device is going in an out of power/peak current limit.   I believe that you want PFC enable to occur around 65 to 75V AC input.  Below that you are in a brownout condition.

    It is not recommended that you bring the unit up in constant power or constant current load.  In most applications the down stream converter should not be drawing any load until the output is within 75% of it's target window.  You can bring the unit up with constant resistance load.

    You might try adding the AC input and slowly bringing it up without faking out the PFC enable and resistor loading to see what happens. 

    Regards,