Designing a Full Bridge SMPS for a 220Vac to 12Vdc Output

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The discussion focuses on designing a full bridge Switching Mode Power Supply (SMPS) to convert 220Vac to 12Vdc, highlighting confusion over the required configuration. Participants suggest that the design could incorporate a cascade approach, utilizing a boost converter for lower input voltages and a buck converter for higher voltages. The importance of optimizing the duty cycle of switches is emphasized, along with the need to derive equations from first principles. Concerns about voltage drops and resistive losses are noted, stressing the need for careful design to ensure efficiency. Overall, the conversation underscores the flexibility in design choices while adhering to fundamental principles of SMPS.
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Hey guys ... I have inserted a picture of the question as it was easier to scan than to re-write :P It's based on Switching Mode Power Supplies.

Homework Statement


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Check the picture or the upload on photobucket http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k320/shahilj/Q3.jpg" ... It is basically a full bridge config that is required. What got me was that the supply ranges from 220Vac down to 12Vdc BUT the o/p is 12Vdc ... I got a bit confused as to what config to use.

Homework Equations



All equations are to be derived from first principles as such.

The Attempt at a Solution


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I kinda need someone to at least just check the work .. coz it is worth a lot of marks (25 out of a 100 mark paper) and I really need to know if my method is indeed right!

Thanks so much!
 
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Also, had a problem with this question as well :frown:

Honestly, I have no idea where to even start with this one:confused:

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hey guys :( seems nobody can help ... um, I've looked on the net for help with the second question I posed ... can't find relevant help anywhere .. please can someone at least guide me in some direction coz I write on Monday and um, well ... I might fail without it!
 
Sorry I can't be of too much help in the time required,
but it sounds like the configuration could sanely be
one of several possible ones.

The effect is certainly that of a buck-boost converter
in that you're trying to sometimes boost a smaller
dc voltage up to a higher output voltage.

Yet you're also (over a much wider factor of input
to output voltages) trying to have an efficient buck
converter to step down higher input voltages to lower
output voltages.

It doesn't seem clear that they're saying you should
accomplish the task in any particular circuit configuration,
or with a minimum number of parts.

They're saying to optimize the duty cycle of your switches,
and to give equations that model the thing from first
principles.

Yet also they ignore your control circuit and say you
should only show the power handling circuit.

I'd be tempted to do a cascade design where the boost
stage is activated for only 12vdc to 24vdc input and
it functions as a stand alone boost converter with a
simple topology and a maximum boost of 2:1.

When the DC in is from 24VDC to 707VDC from a
full wave bridge, then you could have a simple buck
converter to reduce that to 24VDC out 2-10A.

Obviously you could get into a bit of trouble with input
voltages within +/- a few volts of 24VDC so that you'd
need to be mindful of your voltage drops in diodes and
resistive losses etc. so that overall it'd still work well in
that region.

Sometimes that's easily done with a 2 stage
approach where a boost converter boosts to a higher
than necessary voltage, then a buck converter takes that
range of higher voltages down to the desired output.

I don't know if that's any easier for you to design and
analyze from first principles or not as opposed to a more
complicated / integrated topology.

Honestly, to me, SMPS circuits are pretty much cookbook
things and you have only so many basic topologies to
choose from and the analyses of those are well known in
many cases.

But since they're apparently not concerned with 'cost'
or control topology or non-ideal effects in the
transformers, capacitors, inductors, you can have a lot
of freedom to design the blocks in ways that are simple
for you to analyze and design even if real world
aspects of size / heat / cost / whatever might cause
some more complicated trade-offs to be made.

You don't even have to show HOW it's controlled, it's
only relevant that SOME pulse train of a reasonable
duty cycle should cause the proper input to output
voltage transformation at the expected range of output
loads, and it's quite arbitrary WHAT that duty cycle is
or HOW you would actually implement the
control / feedback circuit!
 
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