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Bridge rectifier selection.

An integrated bridge (DF06M, 4x1A/600V, GI) has been selected.

Input Bulk Capacitor.

From table 5, in order for the valley voltage on the input cap to be around 90 V, a minimum capacitance of about

27 µF should be used. A standard 22 µF/400V electrolytic capacitor will be chosen. After few iterations, the (1)

Table 23b) shows the results of a second step of calculations, aimed at checking that no limit of the device is

violated. The result is OK.

The results are listed in table 23c). With these data the power dissipated by the L6590 is calculated and the

result is shown in table 23d).

From eqn. 3, the maximum junction-to-ambient thermal resistance needed for reaching thermal balance at Tj =

125 °C is 51.2 °C/W. From the diagrams of fig. 21 it is possible to see that this can be obtained with about 1 cm

2

copper area on the PCB.

Figure 21. L6590 Family Packages Junction-to-Ambient Thermal Resistance

Pre-design Choices

120 V

Reflected voltage

0,9

Transformer efficiency

80 V

Leakage inductance overvoltage

12 V

L6590 supply voltage

0.6 V

Secondary diode forward drop

3 V

Bridge Rectifier + EMI filter voltage drop

SO16W

Rthja vs. PCB copper area

Pdiss = 1.4 W

0.511.5

22.533.5

4

4.5

46

48

50

52

54

56

[cm^2]

[°C/W]

1 Oz 2 Oz

MINIDIP

Rthja vs. PCB copper area

Pdiss = 1.4 W

0.511.522.5

33.544.5

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

[cm^2]

[°C/W]

1 Oz 2 Oz

Table 22. (continued)