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Power Electronics Lab # 1 Lab 1-Introduction To Power Electronics Board

The document provides details about Power Electronics Lab #1 which introduces the power electronics board. It describes the various equipment used in the lab including an oscilloscope, function generator, DC power supply, and power pole circuit board. It explains that the power electronics board can be configured in different topologies using magnetics boards and daughterboards. It also includes questions about buck, boost, buck-boost and flyback converters and provides short definitions of each type of converter.

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Power Electronics Lab # 1 Lab 1-Introduction To Power Electronics Board

The document provides details about Power Electronics Lab #1 which introduces the power electronics board. It describes the various equipment used in the lab including an oscilloscope, function generator, DC power supply, and power pole circuit board. It explains that the power electronics board can be configured in different topologies using magnetics boards and daughterboards. It also includes questions about buck, boost, buck-boost and flyback converters and provides short definitions of each type of converter.

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Name: Usama Hassan Student Id: FA18-BEEE-0013

Teacher: Sir Hadi Hussain Shah Date: 10-02-2021

Power Electronics Lab # 1


Lab 1-Introduction to Power Electronics Board:
1.2 Theory
1.2.1 Introduction
The power electronics laboratory is built around a reconfigurable circuit board, termed the Power
electronics board, along with accessory daughterboards.
1.2.2 Laboratory Equipment
Each experiment station has the following equipment.
• Digital Oscilloscope
• Function generator
• DC power supply 0-30 V - 2 A max
• Power Pole circuit board and associated plug-in boards with magnetic components and
daughterboards with onboard components for implementing closed loop control.
 Digital Multimeter

1.2.3 Power Electronics Board Familiarization


The main feature of the Power- electronics Board is the reconfigurable power- electronics consisting of
two MOSFETs and two diodes. The drive circuits for the MOSFETs are incorporated on the board, and so
are the various protection circuits for over current and over voltage. PWM signals to control the
MOSFETs can be generated onboard or supplied from an external source. The power electronics board
can be configured to work in various topologies using three magnetics boards (BB board for buck, boost
and buck-boost converters, Flyback board for flyback converter, and Forward board for forward
converter) which plug into the Power- Electronics Board. In addition, there is an option of doing
frequency analysis of each topology by injecting a small-signal sinusoidal control voltage.
The board can also be operated in voltage/current feedback mode using an external control circuit
mounted on a daughter board which plugs into the Power-pole Board.
The basic block diagram of the Power-pole Board is shown in Fig. 1.1 and the actual board is shown in
Fig. 1.2. Please note that the locations of the various components on the board are indicated in Table
1.1.
1.2.3.1 Power-Electronics Board
The power-electronics consists of MOSFETs Q10 and Q15 and diodes D10 and D15. The source of the
upper MOSFET and the drain of the lower MOSFET are connected to screw terminals for external
connection, and so are the anode of upper diode and the cathode of the lower diode. The voltage and
current waveforms at the terminals of the MOSFETs and diodes can be observed.

Table 1.2 shows the locations of test points on the power electronics board.
Note:
Take care whenever you are using oscilloscope probes to measure voltage. If the measurement
reference potential is different to the oscilloscope reference potential, then must use differential probe.
To observe the voltage across the upper MOSFET:
• Connect the positive and negative terminals of a differential probe to the DRAIN and SOURCE of upper
MOSFET.

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To observe the upper MOSFET source current,
• Connect the positive and negative terminals of a differential probe to terminals CS2 and SOURCE (D-2
in Fig. 1.2) of upper MOSFET. The current sense resistor value is 0.05 Ω.

Exercise:

Q1: What is Buck converter?


Ans: A buck converter is a DC-to-DC power converter which steps down voltage from its input to its output.
It is a class of switched-mode power supply typically containing at least two semiconductors and at least
one energy storage element, a capacitor, inductor, or the two in combination. To reduce voltage ripple,
filters made of capacitors are normally added to such a converter's output and input.
Switching converters (such as buck converters) provide much greater power efficiency as DC-to-DC
converters than linear regulators which are simpler circuits that lower voltages by dissipating power as
heat, but do not step up output current.
Buck converters can be highly efficient (often higher than 90%), making them useful for tasks such as
converting a computer's main (bulk) supply voltage (often 12 V) down to lower voltages needed
by USB, DRAM and the CPU (1.8 V or less).
Q2: What is Boost converter?
Ans: A boost converter is one of the simplest types of switch mode converter. As the name suggests, it
takes an input voltage and boosts or increases it. All it consists of is an inductor, a semiconductor switch
(such as MOSFET, a diode and a capacitor. Also needed is a source of a periodic square wave.
The biggest advantage boost converters offer is their high efficiency some of them can even go up to 99%!
In other words, 99% of the input energy is converted to useful output energy, only 1% is wasted.
Q3: What is Buck-Boost converter?
Ans: A buck-boost boost converter can supply a regulated DC output from a power source delivering a
voltage either below or above the regulated output voltage. A buck-boost converter circuit combines
elements of both a buck converter and a boost converter, however they are often larger in footprint than
either alternative.
The main objective of a buck-boost converter is to receive an input DC voltage and output a different level
of DC voltage, either lowering or boosting the voltage as required by the application.
Q4: What is flyback converter?
Ans: The flyback converter is used in both AC/DC and DC/DC conversion with galvanic isolation between
the input and any outputs. The flyback converter is a buck-boost converter with the inductor split to form a
transformer, so that the voltage ratios are multiplied with an additional advantage of isolation.
The flyback converter is a power supply topology that uses mutually coupled inductor, to store energy
when current passes through and releasing the energy when the power is removed. The flyback converters
are similar to the booster converters in architecture and performance. However, the primary winding of
the transformer replaces inductor while the secondary provides the output. In the flyback configuration,
the primary and secondary windings are utilized as two separate inductors.

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