Any Small Adhesive Feet
Any Small Adhesive Feet
Any Small Adhesive Feet
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Various sizes
Phil Wood has developed a particularly effective method for extracting the excess resonant circulating energy of
a RotoVerter Prime Mover. This is the circuit:
Care needs to be taken when constructing this circuit. For example, the circuit performance is displayed by an
HEF4017B 5-stage Johnson counter, but for some lunatic reason, the 4017 designation is also used for a
completely different chip of the same size and number of DIL pins, namely the "CMOS high-speed hex flipflop
with Reset", an action definitely worthy of a stupidity award. Another point to watch out for is that the 1A 1N5819
diode is a very high-speed Schottky barrier component.
The input from the RotoVertor motor is stepped-down by a transformer to give an 18-volt (nominal) AC output,
which is then rectified by a standard rectifier bridge and the output smoothed by an 18-volt zener diode and a
330mF smoothing capacitor, and used to power the MC34151 chip. This DC power supply line is further
dropped and stabilised by a 15-volt zener diode and a 47mF capacitor and used to power the LED display chip
HEF4017B.
The raw RotoVerter input is also taken direct and rectified by a second 400-volt 35-amp rectifier diode bridge
and smoothed by a 20mF capacitor with a high voltage rating. It must be understood that the RotoVerter
system is liable to produce considerable power surges from time to time and so this circuit must be capable of
handling and benefiting from these surges. This is why the IRG4PH40UD IGBT device was selected (apart from
it's very reasonable price) as it robust and can handle high voltages.
The resulting high-voltage DC is taken by the chain of components two 75-volt zener diodes, 20K resistor and
the 100K variable resistor. The voltage developed on the slider of this variable resistor is loaded with a 10K
resistor and voltage-limited with a 10-volt zener diode, and decoupled with a 10nF capacitor before being
passed to the MC34151 high-speed MOSFET dual driver chip. Both of these drivers are used to sharpen up the
pulse and drive the IGBT cleanly. The result is an output which is a series of DC pulses. The operation of the
circuit can be seen quite clearly, thanks to the HEF4017B display circuit which drives a row of LEDs, triggered
by the IGBT gate signal, divided by the 1K / 4.7K voltage divider decoupled by the 10nF capacitor. This display
shows clearly when the IGBT is switching correctly - actually, the display circuit is quite a useful device for
people who do not own an oscilloscope, not just for this circuit, but a wide range of different circuits.
As you will notice from the notes on Phil's board layout shown above, the first of the 75-volt zener diodes used
on the direct RotoVerter power feed, should be replaced with a 30-volt zener if a 120-volt motor is used in this
circuit.
Another important point which needs to be stressed, is that the pulsed DC output from this circuit can be at
extremely high voltages and needs to treated with considerable care. This is not a circuit for beginners and
anyone who is not familiar with handling high voltages needs the supervision of an experienced person. Also, if
either this circuit or the RotoVerter is connected to the mains, then no scope ground leads should be connected
as the circuit can be a hundred volts or more below ground potential.
The pattern of the printed-circuit board when viewed from the underside of the board is shown here:
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