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Lab 5

This document provides instructions for a laboratory experiment on a buck-boost converter. Students will construct the circuit using a SMPE board and study the characteristics of the buck-boost converter by varying different parameters such as duty cycle, switching frequency, input voltage, and load. Simulations of the buck-boost converter will also be performed in PSIM software. The objective is to examine the circuit's theoretical, simulated, and experimental results and analyze the circuit's behavior under continuous current mode of operation.

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Lab 5

This document provides instructions for a laboratory experiment on a buck-boost converter. Students will construct the circuit using a SMPE board and study the characteristics of the buck-boost converter by varying different parameters such as duty cycle, switching frequency, input voltage, and load. Simulations of the buck-boost converter will also be performed in PSIM software. The objective is to examine the circuit's theoretical, simulated, and experimental results and analyze the circuit's behavior under continuous current mode of operation.

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Name:______________________________ ID:_______________

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power Electronics 304/604 Laboratory 5 Buck-Boost Converter


1. Objective The objective of this laboratory is to study the characteristics of a simple buck-boost converter. The circuit will be operated under continuous current mode (CCM), and open loop condition. Then, examine the circuit from theoretical/simulation results and experimental results.

Figure 1 - Image & Schematic diagram of the SMPE board for buck-boost converter.

Output voltage TP25 TP24

Inductor current TP5 TP6

Input current TP1 TP2

PWM signal TP69 TP68

Test Point (+) (-)

Prof CV Nayar & James Darbyshire

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Name:______________________________ ID:_______________
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2. Equipment Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO) DC power supply Switch mode power electronics (SMPE) board 12 V Signal Power Supply for SMPE board Variable resistor 0-120 Ohm, 2 Ampere

Digital Multimeter (DMM) DC current clamp meter (CM)

PART A - Working with SMPE board 3. Experiment Construct the circuit using the upper MOSFET. The 100uH inductor board and a variable power resistor will be provided. Capacitor of (220uF + 10uF) at the output of converter is preinstalled onboard. The MOSFET drive signal is to be provided from the onboard PWM generator. Have the lab instructor check your board before applying any power or gating signals to the circuit. Note: All experiment starts with duty cycle at 0% (most left position on duty cycle potentiometer). 3.1. Experiment 1 - Varying duty cycle 1) Set the variable load resistor to R = 20. 2) Turn on the switch to power SMPE board. 3) Set the switching frequency to 100 kHz and duty cycle to 50% by observing PWM signal on TP69-68. 4) Turn the dc power supply on and set the input voltage to 12 volt with independent mode operation. 5) With PWM signal as reference, record the 3-5 cycles waveform of input current on TP1-2, inductor current on TP5-6 and output voltage on TP25-24. 6) Using DMM measure the average value output voltage. 7) Repeat step 6 with varying duty cycle from 20% to 70% in step of 10%. 3.2. Experiment 2 - Varying switching frequency 1) Set the variable load resistor to R = 20. 2) Set the switching frequency to 100 kHz. 3) With 12 volt input, adjust duty cycle to obtain output voltage of 12 volt. 4) Using DMM, measure the average value of output voltage and inductor current. 5) Using cursor menu on the DSO, measure the peak to peak value of ripple of output voltage and inductor current. 6) Repeat step 3 - 5 with switching frequency of 40, 60 and 80 kHz. Note: at each frequency, make sure that the output voltage is kept constant at 12 volt; this may mean you need to slightly adjust the duty cycle. 3.3. Experiment 3 - Measuring efficiency 1) With 6 volt input and 100 kHz switching frequency, set duty cycle to 50%. 2) Set the load resistor to obtain output current of 0.6 Ampere. 3) Using DMM measure the average value of input current, output voltage and inductor current. 4) Repeat experiment with switching frequency of 40, 60, and 80 kHz.
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Name:______________________________ ID:_______________
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

3.4. Experiment 4 - Varying load 1) Set switching frequency to 40 kHz and duty cycle to 50%. 2) Set the variable load resistor to obtain output current 2A. 3) Measure average value of output voltage and inductor current. 4) Notice whether inductor current waveform is continuous or discontinuous. 5) Repeat step 2 - 4 with output current is set to 1.2, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.1 ampere (by increasing load resistor). 6) By adjusting load resistor carefully, find the boundary between CCM and DCM of the converter. 7) With PWM signal as reference, record the 3-5 cycles of inductor current waveform on TP5-6. 8) Shut down the converter and measure the resistance of the load resistor. 3.5. Experiment 5 - Input voltage disturbance 1) Set switching frequency to 100 kHz and duty cycle to 50%. 2) With 6 volt input voltage, set the variable resistor to R = 20. 3) Adjust duty cycle to obtain output voltage of 12 volts. 4) Using cursor menu in DSO, measure duty cycle. 5) Repeat the experiment with 20% increase in input voltage. 6) Repeat the experiment with 20% decrease in input voltage.

PART B - Working with PSIM simulation 1. Buck-Boost Converter in PSIM Create buck-boost converter circuit using PSIM Demo version as shown in the figure below:

Refer all parameter from practical section. In order to run this circuit in PSIM Demo version, set Simulation Control as follow:

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Name:______________________________ ID:_______________
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2. Pulse Width Modulator To provide trigger signal for MOSFET in buck-boost converter, a pulse width modulator is constructed from high frequency triangular signal (Vcarr) compared to a dc signal (Vref) using a comparator. As the result, a PWM signal with adjustable duty cycle is obtained.
Duty _ cycle = Vref 100% Vcarr ( p)

Parameters of Vcarr are shown below.

Varying Vref from 01 will correspond to 0100% duty cycle. Switching frequency of modulator can be set by changing Frequency in the triangular wave parameters.

3. Simulation Task Simulate buck-boost converter by following the procedures in the practical section (Part A).

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