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UCC2897A: starting with capacitive load (medium and high)

Part Number: UCC2897A


I used slur815.pdf for my design.

Attached my circuit.

When testing at a load of 0-10A. no problems.
Everything was fine until recently.

There were problems at the start of one of the devices in which my power source was used.

It turned out the problem appeared due to the fact that the 12V bus was increased capacity to 4000uF. Total, taking into account the output capacitance of the power source itself was about 5000uF.

I repeated the manifestation of this problem on the resistive load 1A, in combination with a 4000uF capacitive load.


I started experimenting. The first thing I tried, increased Rss to 0.47uF. But this did not have a noticeable improvement.
C41 (in my design) had a noticeable effect. I increased this capacity to 10uF.
The device began to start.
But still, if you make a series of on and off, then you can achieve a cyclic restart of my switching power supply.
Please help in further customization.
I'm worried about the acceptability of the “C41” change to solve my problem.
In designs that I've seen, everywhere this capacity was 4.7uF.

48x12_120W.pdf

  • Hello Sergey,
    Sorry to hear you are having an issue with the UCC2897A but hopefully we can help you resolve the problem.
    It may be that your power supply is going into current limit during startup due to the large capacitive load .
    This will cause a shutdown followed by a restart that causes the soft start capacitor C35 to discharge and re charge.
    If you increase the value of C35 you will get a more controlled start as the PWM gradually increases with the charge on C35.
    Increasing the value of C41 in your design will cause a faster startup but may also cause an output overshoot as this capacitor bypasses the feedback loop at startup. Please adjust the value of C35 and see how this behaves.

    Regards
    John
  • Tested with a load capacity of 5000uF, load current 1A. Input voltage 43Vdc.

    Removed the waveform of the output voltage and voltage on the C35.

    With two values C35:

    Basen 220nF

    Vout 

    Voltage at C35

    and modified 820nF.

    Vout

    Voltage C35

    Vision:

    • With a baseline value of C35 220 nF. At current load 1A, SMPS cyclically restarts. If you increase the load current to 3-4A, SMPS normally starts.
    • At C35 820nF. SMPS cyclically restarts at any current load of 1-10A.
  • Hello Sergey,
    It looks like this issue is resolved so I am going to close this post.
    Please open a new post if you have further issues.
    Regards
    John

  • Thanks for trying to help.

    Basically the problem was the speed of the feedback loop.

    I adjusted the resistor R50 -> 4k7 and capacitor C40 -> 100nF.