{"title":"Analysis and evaluation of a lossless turn-on snubber","authors":"H. Levy, I. Zafrany, G. Ivensky, S. Ben-Yaakov","doi":"10.1109/APEC.1997.575729","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A lossless turn-on snubber was studied analytically, by simulation and experimentally. Limits were found for the proper operation of the snubber and are expressed as permissible duty cycle as a function of input current. It was found that a modified version of the snubber, which includes a tapped main inductor, improves the performance by allowing a wider operational range. The experimental results confirm the theoretical analysis. A reduction of power losses of about 19 W was observed when the snubber was implemented in a 1 kW boost power converter.","PeriodicalId":423659,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of APEC 97 - Applied Power Electronics Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"30","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of APEC 97 - Applied Power Electronics Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.1997.575729","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A lossless turn-on snubber was studied analytically, by simulation and experimentally. Limits were found for the proper operation of the snubber and are expressed as permissible duty cycle as a function of input current. It was found that a modified version of the snubber, which includes a tapped main inductor, improves the performance by allowing a wider operational range. The experimental results confirm the theoretical analysis. A reduction of power losses of about 19 W was observed when the snubber was implemented in a 1 kW boost power converter.