WO2009036517A1 - Overcurrent protection in a dimmer circuit - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to dimmer circuits and in particular, to detecting overcurrent conditions.
- PCT/AU03/00365 entitled “Improved Dimmer Circuit Arrangement”
- PCT/AU03/00366 entitled “Dimmer Circuit with Improved Inductive Load”
- Dimmer circuits are used to control the power provided to a load such as a light or electric motor from a power source such as mains power. Such circuits often use a technique referred to as phase controlled dimming. This allows power provided to the load to be controlled by varying the amount of time that a switch connecting the load to the power source is conducting during a given cycle.
- Modern dimming circuits generally operate in one of two ways - leading edge or trailing edge.
- leading edge technology the dimmer circuit "chops out” or blocks conduction of electricity by the load in the front part of each half cycle (hence the term “leading edge”).
- trailing edge technology the dimmer circuit "chops out” or blocks conduction of electricity by the load in the back part of each half cycle.
- the load is connected to a high voltage or current source such as mains power, a defect in the circuit such as a short circuit, can lead to a sudden surge of high current, which can damage the load and any circuitry connected to the load. It is useful for the dimmer circuit to be able to detect the presence of such high, or overcurrent conditions, and act so as to remove the load and/or connected circuitry from the high current source.
- the decision to act so as to remove the load and/or connected circuitry may be based upon the sensed current exceeding a preset threshold.
- the criteria for cutout is determined by the instantaneous current flowing through the dimmer exceeding a pre-determined threshold level, particularly for the condition when a power device is commencing conduction using controlled transition time while the instantaneous line voltage is high, in that the instantaneous power dissipation imposed upon the power device while a short-circuit load condition exists, is high.
- the criteria for cutout is determined by the product of the instantaneous voltage appearing across the dimmer and the instantaneous current flowing through the dimmer exceeding a pre-determined threshold level i.e. instantaneous power level in the power semiconductor, however, such circuit designs are complex and expensive to design and manufacture.
- An overcurrent protection circuit for use in a dimmer circuit comprising a switching device for controlling power delivered to a load, the overcurrent protection circuit comprising: means for sensing a load current passing through the load; and means for comparing the sensed load current with a threshold; wherein the threshold is a dynamic current threshold.
- An overcurrent protection circuit wherein the switching device comprises a first switch and a second switch.
- the dynamic current threshold is inversely proportional to the voltage appearing across the switching device.
- the overcurrent protection circuit generates a cut out signal when the sum of the instantaneous voltage appearing across the dimmer and the instantaneous current flowing through the dimmer exceeds the threshold.
- the overcurrent protection circuit further comprises a trip signal generator to generate a trip signal for disconnecting gate drive signals from the first and second switches.
- the trip signal is applied to a latch circuit for disconnecting the gate drive signals from the controlling first and/or second switch.
- the means for sensing the load current passing through the load comprises a current sense resistor RSl connected between the current path between the first and second switches.
- first and second switches are MOSFETs and the current sense resistor is connected between a source of the first switch and the source of the second switch.
- the first and second switches are IGBTs and the current sense resistor is connected between a collector of the first switch and the collector of the second switch.
- the dynamic current threshold I ⁇ is determined by:
- I T [V ref - Rl .V LL / (R1+R2)] / RSl
- V LL Line voltage - Load voltage
- Rl Voltage sense resistor
- R2 voltage converter resistor
- RS 1 Current sense resistance
- V ref reference voltage
- a method for providing overcurrent protection in a dimmer circuit comprising a switching device for controlling power delivered to a load, the method comprising: sensing a load current passing through the load; and comparing the sensed load current with a threshold; wherein the threshold is a dynamic current threshold.
- the method further comprises generating a trip signal when the sensed load current exceeds the threshold, to isolate the load from the power.
- the method further comprises calculating the threshold I ⁇ according to the following relation:
- I T [V ref - Rl .V 1x / (R1+R2)] / RSl
- V LL Line voltage - Load voltage
- Rl Voltage sense resistor
- a dimmer circuit comprising the overcurrent protection circuit of the first aspect.
- Figure 1 - shows a circuit arrangement according to one aspect of the present invention, using dynamic current sensing
- Figures 2A to 21 - show waveforms at various points in the circuit arrangement of Figure 1 during normal and short-circuit/overcurrent conditions;
- Figure 3 - shows the variation of trip current I ⁇ with Line-Load voltage V LL resulting from the present invention
- Figure 4 - shows a graph showing the short-circuit instantaneous power vs line voltage comparing the present invention with the prior art.
- a short-circuit protective cutout mechanism for the power semiconductors within a phase-control dimmer whereby the criteria for cutout is determined by the sum of the instantaneous voltage appearing across the dimmer and the instantaneous current flowing through the dimmer exceeding a pre-determined threshold level.
- Figure 1 shows a dimmer circuit 10 controlling power delivered to the load as shown in Figure 1.
- Dimmer 10 has a switching device, in this example provided by first and second switches MOSFETs Ql and Q2 (for example SPA20N60C3).
- the switches turn on and off in response to dimmer gate drive signals provided by block 11 as will be understood by the person skilled in the art.
- the switch elements Ql and Q2 operate/control the load alternately, each operating at different polarities during subsequent half-cycles of the power applied by the line.
- Each switch element has an associated respective anti- parallel diode Dl and D2.
- FIG. 2A shows the substantially-sinusoidal portion of the line current I L , with the turn-on of switch Ql and Q2 (second half- cycle), whether by alternate or simultaneous gate activation.
- the corresponding line voltage V L is shown in Figure 2B, with a peak value of 350V.
- the turn-on appears to be a step function, however, as will be appreciated by the person skilled in the art, there is a transition from non-conduction to full conduction, as shown in Figure 2C.
- the transition time from OV to 350V is about 50 ⁇ S.
- Figure 2C-1 shows the transition of load current IL
- Figure 2C-2 shows the corresponding transition of dimmer voltage VLL.
- the instantaneous voltage appearing across the load controlling power device (Ql) is represented as a signal current flowing through the shunt voltage sense resistor Rl.
- This "Voltage” signal current is converted to a corresponding "Voltage” signal voltage by resistor R2 - in series with the shunt voltage sense resistor Rl.
- R2 has small value compared to Rl, and hence does not significantly influence the signal current.
- the instantaneous current flowing through switch Ql is represented as a signal voltage across the series current sense resistor RSl.
- the series resistor circuit arrangement of Rl, R2 & RSl results in addition of the "Voltage” signal voltage and the "Current” signal voltage to form a composite signal voltage at the junction of Rl and R2 relative to OV reference potential.
- the magnitude of the composite signal voltage is compared to a reference voltage Vref and when greater, will activate the fault current cutout latch.
- Figures 2D to 21 show various waveforms at different points in the circuit of Figure 1, during the transition time of about 50 ⁇ S as shown in Figure 2C described above.
- Figure 2G shows the value of VLLxR2/(Rl+R2), which under short circuit conditions, remains a constant.
- Figure 2H shows the value of VA under short circuit conditions.
- Figure 2H shows the value of VA as the sum of Figures 2G and 2F.
- Figure 2H also shows the value of Vref, which crosses the function for VA.
- the constant reference voltage V ref set in this example at a constant 0.5 volts.
- I x [V ref - RLV 1x / (R1+R2)] / RSl
- V LL Line voltage - Load voltage
- Rl Voltage sense resistor
- R2 voltage converter resistor
- RSl Current sense resistance
- V r e f reference voltage
- Figure 3 shows a plot of I ⁇ as it varies with V LL ranging from OV to 350V, with the values of the components as shown in Figure 1, and V ref equal to about 0.5V.
- Figure 3 shows that the higher the line- voltage to load voltage, the lower the trip current is. This reduces the excessive power dissipation problems associated with prior methods where the trip current is static.
- Figure 4 shows a plot of Power (W) vs Line Voltage-Load Voltage V LL for prior art methods using static current sensing and static power sensing as well as for the "dynamic current” sensing of the present invention. It can be seen that the power dissipated by the switching device before cutting out at a high line voltage is greatly reduced as compared to the static current method, and equal to that of the static power method. The complexity of the circuit design of the present invention is also far less than that required for the static power method.
- the protection circuit of the present invention to a DC application, in which the switching device comprises only one switch.
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