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Hoppy

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #300 on: March 24, 2010, 09:46:39 PM »

Its interesting that if a NE555 timer is used to supply pulses to a mosfet which is switching a coil connected between its drain and supply rail, whilst the 555 output is high, current from the supply rail will be fed through the mosfet drain to gate and through the 555 pin 3 output into its supply rail. If a cap is placed across the 555 supply rails, the current fed back will charge the cap sufficiently to power the 555 timer, so that the normal supply to the 555 can be disconnected. I first noticed this when I was pulsing a DC contactor from a 30V supply. The 555 was supplied from the 30V power rail with a 15V zener stabilised supply, smoothed with a 100uF cap.

Hoppy


@Gotoluc,
Hi,
I've not posted on this forum for over a year I reckon, but your experiment looks very promising.
Have you checked to make sure that no power can be added to the output through the gate of the mosfet?
There is a lot on this thread to read through.
Also I am still not sure if your coils are wound so the 2 coils appose each other, just like in a common mode choke.
In common mode chokes you can have split winding and parallel winding, yours is split.
The fact that your inductance is so high (more than the sum of the two) would indicate these coils are not wire in common mode config but are wired in series.
I have lots of cores to test out this idea with and a dual pulse circuit to allow the pulse current to be made square. (Thanks to Paul Lowrance and his mini orbo pulse circuit).
http://globalfreeenergy.info/2010/03/

Rob

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #301 on: March 24, 2010, 10:08:16 PM »
....
Also I am still not sure if your coils are wound so the 2 coils appose each other, just like in a common mode choke.
In common mode chokes you can have split winding and parallel winding, yours is split.
The fact that your inductance is so high (more than the sum of the two) would indicate these coils are not wire in common mode config but are wired in series.
I have lots of cores to test out this idea with and a dual pulse circuit to allow the pulse current to be made square. (Thanks to Paul Lowrance and his mini orbo pulse circuit).
http://globalfreeenergy.info/2010/03/

Rob

Hi Rob,

Re on common mode choke: you are correct the winding technique Luc used for his toroidal coils is really the one as the so called common mode chokes are made BUT the big difference is the way how they are connected: Luc connected the two coils in series aiding i.e. the MUTUAL inductances of the two coils add to the sum of the individual inductances in series,  so that the resultant inductance is nearly the 4 times of a single coil, Lresultant=(L1+L2+2M where L1=L2=L in the equation (the two coils are assumed to have the same inductance which is nearly true and M is nearly L because in ring cores the coefficience of coupling is nearly 1 ).  (A useful link on this is here: http://www.daycounter.com/LabBook/Mutual-Inductance.phtml )

I hope this helps clarify your doubt above.

rgds,  Gyula

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #302 on: March 24, 2010, 10:48:42 PM »
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But Luc has been putting the 100 Ohm resistor in series into the gate circuit you must have missed that.   He showed actual scope shots already taken directly across the series 100 Ohm, see here the waveforms (click on the quote's link in bold just in next line):
...

rgds, Gyula

OK yes, I see. Thanks for bringing that up. That makes the 2Sxx mosfet
look much better with only 1.4Vpp across the 100ohm resister...
You know what, if gotoluc looks on his signal generator he will see
the output impedance specified probably like 60ohms. If he put a
60ohm resistor where where the signal generator leads terminate
to ground right before the circuit he may find that it squares up
the input signal trace significantly. You can see that the transistor
is beginning to convert voltage variations to current meaning that
it is seeing the input signal variations at the top of the square wave.
I think a signal generator termination resistor might square that signal up.
The signal generator will be working slightly harder but the level control
will bring the signal voltage back up to where it's needed

I wonder what the total circuit behavior *is* with this 2Sxx transistor?
The darned thing still has a high Ciss of nearly 1000pf or more so I don't
want to spend to much time on it if we could get one with a lower Ciss.

IRF640 drive max at 360mW peak
2Sxx drive max at 42mW peak

So we are driving it with about 1/9 of the power, via drive voltage variation
alone. Man I wonder where that lower figure would end up with smaller
Ciss? We are getting impedance matching probs between the signal
generator and circuit. So I wonder how the circuit is behaving with this
transistor? Gain in the bulk caps or not?

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #303 on: March 24, 2010, 11:29:42 PM »
Its interesting that if a NE555 timer is used to supply pulses to a mosfet which is switching a coil connected between its drain and supply rail, whilst the 555 output is high, current from the supply rail will be fed through the mosfet drain to gate and through the 555 pin 3 output into its supply rail. If a cap is placed across the 555 supply rails, the current fed back will charge the cap sufficiently to power the 555 timer, so that the normal supply to the 555 can be disconnected. I first noticed this when I was pulsing a DC contactor from a 30V supply. The 555 was supplied from the 30V power rail with a 15V zener stabilised supply, smoothed with a 100uF cap.

Hoppy

Hi Hoppy,

This is an interesting observation and you nicely described what you found,  however, some further notices may be in order.

The energy coming from the drain side back to the gate is caused by the drain gate interelectrode capacitance and depending on the type of the power MOSFET, this capacitance can be quite high to be able to cause the situation you described.  IF you choose another MOSFET type that has a few pFs only between the drain gate, then this situation cannot really happen as severely as you found, of course this also depends on the working frequency too. In Luc's circuit the frequency has been only as high as 50-60kHz or so and the IRF640 drain source cap value, Crss is about 53pF at 25V drain voltage, this gives about XL=40-50 kOHm capacitive reactance so high that significant current cannot really flow through it. Especially when there are no voltage spikes at the drain side because of tuning for resonance there, I think of the lack of high voltage difference between the drain gate -- this is the second reason why in Luc's circuit this is not experienced. (of course if he did experience it, it would be an unwanted phenomena because it would steal energy from the output resonant circuit.)

So the energy coming back via the Crss also depends much on the instantenous drain voltage wrt the gate, and also, the higher this cap value, the bigger the energy coming back, at a given frequency.

You surely can recall other members finding that the body, (the casing) of the 555 integrated circuit sometimes gets heated up or suddenly simply go wrong after working for a few minutes, when directly drives the gate of MOSFETs that switches a coil via the drain, especially if the coil at the output has a resonant frequency that is far from the input drive frequency, hence big, nasty voltage spikes can couple back to the gate to find the output circuits inside the 555, beyond its Pin 3. 
While the amount of the unwanted energy coupled back can really supply a 555 as it were a separate power supply, I think it is an unwanted situation in most of the applications and you would have to make sure to limit the amount of the current coupled back, afterall it steals from the output energy, and make sure the 555 or the 15V Zener for instance will not overdissipate.  Also, when you wish to switch ON such a driving circuit that gets its supply from the drainside, it is not at all a 100% sure it can start again after a switch OFF because it would have no or very little supply voltage due to the initial lack of the big spikes at the drain side (a static 30V at the drain cannot couple back much current via the drain gate capacitance to start up the 555).

Sorry for the long 'rambling' I felt it interesting to discuss.

rgds,  Gyula


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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #304 on: March 25, 2010, 12:09:25 AM »
Hi Hoppy,

This is an interesting observation and you nicely described what you found,  however, some further notices may be in order.

The energy coming from the drain side back to the gate is caused by the drain gate interelectrode capacitance and depending on the type of the power MOSFET, this capacitance can be quite high to be able to cause the situation you described.  IF you choose another MOSFET type that has a few pFs only between the drain gate, then this situation cannot really happen as severely as you found, of course this also depends on the working frequency too. In Luc's circuit the frequency has been only as high as 50-60kHz or so and the IRF640 drain source cap value, Crss is about 53pF at 25V drain voltage, this gives about XL=40-50 kOHm capacitive reactance so high that significant current cannot really flow through it. Especially when there are no voltage spikes at the drain side because of tuning for resonance there, I think of the lack of high voltage difference between the drain gate -- this is the second reason why in Luc's circuit this is not experienced. (of course if he did experience it, it would be an unwanted phenomena because it would steal energy from the output resonant circuit.)

So the energy coming back via the Crss also depends much on the instantenous drain voltage wrt the gate, and also, the higher this cap value, the bigger the energy coming back, at a given frequency.

You surely can recall other members finding that the body, (the casing) of the 555 integrated circuit sometimes gets heated up or suddenly simply go wrong after working for a few minutes, when directly drives the gate of MOSFETs that switches a coil via the drain, especially if the coil at the output has a resonant frequency that is far from the input drive frequency, hence big, nasty voltage spikes can couple back to the gate to find the output circuits inside the 555, beyond its Pin 3. 
While the amount of the unwanted energy coupled back can really supply a 555 as it were a separate power supply, I think it is an unwanted situation in most of the applications and you would have to make sure to limit the amount of the current coupled back, afterall it steals from the output energy, and make sure the 555 or the 15V Zener for instance will not overdissipate.  Also, when you wish to switch ON such a driving circuit that gets its supply from the drainside, it is not at all a 100% sure it can start again after a switch OFF because it would have no or very little supply voltage due to the initial lack of the big spikes at the drain side (a static 30V at the drain cannot couple back much current via the drain gate capacitance to start up the 555).

Sorry for the long 'rambling' I felt it interesting to discuss.

rgds,  Gyula

Right, the Crss spec value is the reverse source to gate capacitance.
In the IR640 it is typically 60pf. Makes no sense for a cap, but it
does for a semiconductor device. The positive spike of the Ids
caused by the coil can come through that so you essentially have a
output powered NE555. I think I would put a 1n914 diode from the gate
drive line to pin3 to guarantee what was going on. We estimated that
cmos NE555 took only 300uW to run and the zener diode doesn't turn on
until it's back biased to 15V protecting the NE555 from too much kick.
Would it work in our case as yours was driving into 30Vdc? It wouldn't
hurt to try and maybe would drain off some gate charge. A normal
NE555 I'm pretty sure it wouldn't. We would have to guarantee full
drive voltage and current.

Bad news; in the STS2DNF30L the Crss parameter it is only 11pf!

There is something called reverse amplifier gain or reverse
transconductance. And this Crss provides the basis for
that. This can also lead to self oscillations in linear AC amps.

:S:MarkCoffman

Hoppy

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #305 on: March 25, 2010, 09:27:07 AM »

Hi Gyula,

Thanks for expanding on my observation. I should have added that I have a freewheel diode across the coil, as in my application the coil is operating a heavy duty DC contactor coil with a resistance of 20R. My pulse rate is slow at about 1 Hz. The mosfet is an IRFZ48N (Crss - 200-270pf), which as you say is high enough to account for the effect.

Hoppy

Hi Hoppy,

This is an interesting observation and you nicely described what you found,  however, some further notices may be in order.

The energy coming from the drain side back to A is caused by the drain gate interelectrode capacitance and depending on the type of the power MOSFET, this capacitance can be quite high to be able to cause the situation you described.  IF you choose another MOSFET type that has a few pFs only between the drain gate, then this situation cannot really happen as severely as you found, of course this also depends on the working frequency too. In Luc's circuit the frequency has been only as high as 50-60kHz or so and the IRF640 drain source cap value, Crss is about 53pF at 25V drain voltage, this gives about XL=40-50 kOHm capacitive reactance so high that significant current cannot really flow through it. Especially when there are no voltage spikes at the drain side because of tuning for resonance there, I think of the lack of high voltage difference between the drain gate -- this is the second reason why in Luc's circuit this is not experienced. (of course if he did experience it, it would be an unwanted phenomena because it would steal energy from the output resonant circuit.)

So the energy coming back via the Crss also depends much on the instantenous drain voltage wrt the gate, and also, the higher this cap value, the bigger the energy coming back, at a given frequency.

You surely can recall other members finding that the body, (the casing) of the 555 integrated circuit sometimes gets heated up or suddenly simply go wrong after working for a few minutes, when directly drives the gate of MOSFETs that switches a coil via the drain, especially if the coil at the output has a resonant frequency that is far from the input drive frequency, hence big, nasty voltage spikes can couple back to the gate to find the output circuits inside the 555, beyond its Pin 3. 
While the amount of the unwanted energy coupled back can really supply a 555 as it were a separate power supply, I think it is an unwanted situation in most of the applications and you would have to make sure to limit the amount of the current coupled back, afterall it steals from the output energy, and make sure the 555 or the 15V Zener for instance will not overdissipate.  Also, when you wish to switch ON such a A circuit that gets its supply from the drainside, it is not at all a 100% sure it can start again after a switch OFF because it would have no or very little supply voltage due to the initial lack of the big spikes at the drain side (a static 30V at the drain cannot couple back much current via the drain gate capacitance to start up the 555).

Sorry for the long 'rambling' I felt it interesting to discuss.

rgds,  Gyula

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #306 on: March 25, 2010, 04:00:43 PM »
Hi Rob,

Re on common mode choke: you are correct the winding technique Luc used for his toroidal coils is really the one as the so called common mode chokes are made BUT the big difference is the way how they are connected: Luc connected the two coils in series aiding i.e. the MUTUAL inductances of the two coils add to the sum of the individual inductances in series,  so that the resultant inductance is nearly the 4 times of a single coil, Lresultant=(L1+L2+2M where L1=L2=L in the equation (the two coils are assumed to have the same inductance which is nearly true and M is nearly L because in ring cores the coefficience of coupling is nearly 1 ).  (A useful link on this is here: http://www.daycounter.com/LabBook/Mutual-Inductance.phtml )

I hope this helps clarify your doubt above.

rgds,  Gyula
Hi Gyula,
yes, I did a drawing on paper and showed the current direction and the field direction and it makes sense now, its because the  windings are wound in different directions that threw me, but in essence the you can wind the coils around the core in either direction. Its direction of the current flow for a piece of wire laying on the core that determines the field direction.

On the low power front, I have some ICM7555 low power timers to test out.
http://www.intersil.com/data/fn/fn2867.pdf
Around 40uA supply current then its up to you to pick and choose the right timing capacitors and resistors to keep any additional power required to a minimum.
Also I have a LTC4446 mosfet driver to test out.

Rob

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #307 on: March 25, 2010, 07:19:01 PM »
What do you get if you take out the pickup coil in the above test (still -.000006 or less or more), and how does the scope shot looks like then?

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Hi NextGen67,

I removed the pickup coil and the meter went to -.000025 and the scope shot is the fist one below.

I attached the previous scope shot below it (with pickup coil) for comparing.

Luc

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #308 on: March 25, 2010, 07:51:58 PM »
@ everyone,

what do you think of the following mosfet specs.

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml2502.pdf

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml6402pbf.pdf

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irf7700.pdf

I'm looking for a 20v mosfet that I can buy on ebay and the above are available

Luc

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #309 on: March 25, 2010, 08:11:06 PM »
Hi Luc,

Did you add the capacitance in parallel with the toroidal coil?

Yes Gyula, the capacitance is in parallel with the toroidal coil (480pf)

Did you have any capacitance in the pickup coil circuit to make it resonant at the toroidal coil's lower resonant frequency?  The two freqs have to be the same to get the most output.  Hint: at the best setup as you wrote above (150mV across 100Ohm etc), try to place capacitors in series with the 1KOhm load to reach a resonant pickup coil situation (or as Mark suggested, connect it in parallel and use an audio transformer to step down the output power from the pickup coil), to approximate best a matched condition between the pickup circuit as a whole and the 1k load.

Thanks,  Gyula

No, I did not add capacitance on the pickup coil. I tried quickly but could not find something that worked. This needs to be experimented with and something I'll look into.

Luc

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« Reply #310 on: March 25, 2010, 08:25:44 PM »
Hi Mark,

But Luc has been putting the 100 Ohm resistor in series into the gate circuit you must have missed that.   He showed actual scope shots already taken directly across the series 100 Ohm, see here the waveforms (click on the quote's link in bold just in next line):

Yes Mark! the 100 Ohm resistor has been there for some time.

It is unusual to place a series resistor into the Ground wire instead of the "hot" gate wire BUT it is equivalent as long as the circuit to be measured is GND independent and the signal generator GND does not meet with the GNDs of any other measuring instruments used. In Luc's setup this is nicely met.  This way Luc solved the problem that his two channel scope inputs have a common GND.

rgds, Gyula

Yes Gyula! exactly why I have it on the SG ground, so I can use both probes at the same time since they have a common ground.

Luc

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #311 on: March 25, 2010, 08:54:16 PM »
@ everyone,

what do you think of the following mosfet specs.

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml2502.pdf

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml6402pbf.pdf

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irf7700.pdf

I'm looking for a 20v mosfet that I can buy on ebay and the above are available

Luc

---

You should try a termination resistor on your signal generator
with the 2Sxxx transistor. to see if you can clean up its operation.
This transistor is the best you've tried in terms of lowering
gate energy but input noise is now beginning to get the best
of it. Any overunity detected?

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Boy, these are a mixed bag;

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml2502.pdf
- Yes, Moderate Ciss = 760pf (could do better but is OK)

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irlml6402pbf.pdf

- P channel mosfet is a different device!...Would require wiring changes
to put mosfet towards positive battery above coil...gate pulls down
to turn On. Compatible with opto NPN bipolar output transistors. Check
Drain, and Source connections Specs are OK. Ciss=644uf Moderate,
I am not against it. Compatible with NE555 output...Don't
know about SG3525 compatability (probably not -circuit maybe
reconfigurable)

www.irf.com/product-info/datasheets/data/irf7700.pdf

- P channel mosfet a different device!...
Ciss = 4.3nf => no good, way too high, a high current DC device _
I am against it.

:S:MarkSCoffman

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Re: Self running coil?
« Reply #312 on: March 25, 2010, 09:18:17 PM »
Hi Mark,

thanks for the reply.

My singal generator has a 50 Ohm impedance I think. Model Wavetek 134

Are you saying to add a 50 Ohm resistor between the hot and ground of the Wavetek and connect from the resistor to the gate?... if so, I did try it and still have the sine wave across the 100 Ohm current shunt.

Thanks for your input on the mosfets. I did not notice some of them were P channel. It should not be a problem but would use them only if the specs were great. Did not notice the other one was in nf :P

If you can have a look on eBay .com to find a better spec one then the irlml2502 would appreciate it.

Thanks for your help and time.

Luc

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« Reply #313 on: March 25, 2010, 09:34:49 PM »
Hi Mark,

here are the scope shots. First is with 50 resistor and second is without resistor. I do agree that it makes the pulses square but it takes more current then without the resistor.

Both were adjusted to minimum voltage to trigger gate.

Any idea why this is ???... this is the problem I have when I connect the 555. It keeps the pulses square and does not give as good of results compared to using the wavetek with rounded pulses.

Luc

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« Reply #314 on: March 25, 2010, 10:07:51 PM »
@everyone,

decided to try Triangle wave to trigger the mosfet and it works!

With the scope shot below I have 0.26vdc on the pickup coil 1K resistor and -.000010 returning to cap bank with attached 12.88vdc battery.

Less current through the shunt. I also had to drop the volts division to 100mv to show more details.

Luc