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HID 70W application with UBA2032

Draft version

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HID 70W application with UBA2032

FACT SHEET

FACT SHEET

HID 70W application with UBA2032

Draft version

Author(s): Bert op het Veld - Theo Morval Eric Derckx Philips Semiconductors Systems Laboratory Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Keywords
High Intensity Discharge UBA2032 Full Bridge Silicon On Insulator

Date: 2001-04-06
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HID 70W application with UBA2032

CONTENTS

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

INTRODUCTION.

FEATURES 4 APPLICATION PHOTO... 5 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM 6 PARTSLIST 6 LAMP DRIVER CIRCUIT DIMENSIONING.. 7 QUICK MEASUREMENTS... 8

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HID 70W application with UBA2032

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1.

INTRODUCTION

This report describes a lamp driver demonstrator circuit intended for the MHN-TD 70W lamp (Metal Halide Lamp), belonging to the group of compact HID lamps (High Intensity Discharge lamps). In contrast with low-pressure mercury TL and CFL lamps, HID lamps are high-pressure discharge lamps. The presence of iodine will make starting more difficult compared to the low pressure discharge lamps mentioned before. Normally an ignition voltage of 4-5kV must be applied for proper ignition. An ignition voltage up to 25kV can be needed to ignite an HID lamp in case of hot re-strike (= immediate re-ignition after burn-operation period). Also the transition from ignition to burn phase, with dedicated take over & run-up phase, is far more critical for this type of lamps. HID lamps are applied in various areas, among other: automotive (MPXL), projection (UHP) and general lighting (shop window & down lighting). All applications use similar lamp types, but operating requirements are rather different, so exact circuit topologies depend strongly on the application area. The demonstrator circuit described in this report gives a driver concept for a general lighting application. HID lamps, just as CFL and TL, are designed to operate on AC current. However in comparison to CFL and TL, HID must be operated in the low frequency range. HID lamps are not allowed to use at high frequencies, since accoustic resonance of the lamp-arc may occur in the 10kHz 1MHz frequency domain. Mention that some safe, free-of-acoustic-resonance frequency windows do exist. To avoid problems in these areas, the lamp manufacturer prescribes an safe operation area within 50Hz 10kHz range. In practise, the HID lamp operation is limited to 100 400Hz by design engineers. Again in comparison with CFL and TL, the HID driver topology differs. This is due to above, specific HID operating requirements. In stead of a half bridge topology, we use a different set up. The HID lamp driver circuit consists out of three main parts: 1. down converter for power control; 2. ignitor for ignition of the lamp and 3. full bridge commutator for low frequency AC-operation of the lamp. Figure 1 shows the basic block diagram.

Ignitor Down converter / power control

Full bridge commutator

HID Lamp

Figure 1. Block diagram of HID lamp driver circuit

A key-role in the HID lamp driver & full bridge commutator is played by the UBA2032 driver IC. This report will focus on the full bridge commutator and the dedicated UBA2032 driver IC.

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2.

FEATURES

Lamp driver specific Main function blocks are down converter (power control); ignitor (ignition of the lamp) full bridge commutator (low frequency AC lamp operation). The lamp driver takes care of high performance start and burn conditions dedicated for a MHN-TD 70W HID lamp. The lamp will be guided properly through the phases: ignition, take over, run-up and burn. The maximum ignition voltage is 5kV peak (pulse ignition). This is high enough to let (cold) lamp breakdown occur within 10 nsec. For re-ignition after a burn period 25kV is needed. The current ignitor on this demonstrator can not provide this high voltage. NB: hot-restrike fulfilment can be done, however this requires a dedicated high voltage pulse ignitor. During take over phase, which takes less then 1msec, the lamp-conducting channel is formed. The lamp voltage is 20V-rms. At this lamp voltage the lamp driver provides a current of xxx A to keep the arc in place. This lamp current requirement is depending on lamp resistance at breakdown. The HID lamp requires a relative high run-up current of xxx A preventing extinguishing of the lamp. Mention that a too high run-up current causes electrode melting. In the run-up phase the lamp voltage gradually increases to the nominal value of 85V-rms. The required run-up time is about 2 minutes. In burn phase the lamp is operated at 85V-rms and 820 mA (= 70W). The lamp operating frequency (= commutation frequency) is set at 115Hz typical, with a tolerance range of 110-120Hz.

UBA2032 driver IC specfic UBA2032 incorporates a driver IC for full bridge topology. Integrated high side & low side driver pairs (high voltage level shift function, including bootstrap diodes). Defined IC start up via a high voltage supply (550V maximum) and internal supply (low voltage supply and bootstrap supplies). Full bridge disable function & input for start up delay (not used in this demonstrator). Adjustable oscillator frequency, which is set on 115Hz typical (commutation).

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APPLICATION PHOTO

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CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
TR1 L1 P3 1 2 P4 1 2

Lamp

GHR

R30

TR2

TR4

R33 GHL

+380Vdc Cobtrol D1 C1 R28 R29 SHR C2

Igniter
D2 L2 SHL Z4 (47V)

3 2 1

C3 GLR R31 TR3 Z5 (47V)

C4 TR5 R32 GLL

P1

Z6 (47V)

Z7 (47V)

1 2 3 NC 4 5 NC 6 7 C13 R26 8 9 10 11 C16 12

-LVS EXTDR +LVS NC HV NC VDD SU DD BD RC SGND

GHR 24 FSR 23

GHR C15 SHR

SHR 22 NC NC 21 GLR GLR 20 NC NC PGND 19 18 GLL GLL 17 NC NC 16 SHL SHL 15 C14 FSL 14 GHL GHL 13

UBA2032

5.

PARTSLIST

Down converter: TR1 D1 L1 C1 R28/R29 Control Ignitor & full bridge commutator: D2 Z4/Z5/Z6/Z7 L3

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L2 C2 C3/C4 TR1/TR2/TR3/TR4 R30/R31/R32/R33 C14/C15 C13 C16 R26 IC Lamp

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UBA2032 MHN-TD 70W

6.

LAMP DRIVER CIRCUIT DIMENSIONING

Power control management of the lamp driver circuit is done by the down converter part. This down converter acts as a current source and runs in standard SOPS mode at a relative high frequency of 70kHz at nominal burn of the lamp (85V-rms output voltage = lamp voltage). The SOPS mode is chosen to minimise the switch-on losses in the power mosfet TR1 (400V/0.55mOhm). The down converter inductor is 490uH on EF32-3C85 (DC resistance 240mOhm). The lamp power is stabilised by a feedback signal formed by the addition of lamp voltage and lamp current to get a power controlled current source. The lamp power as function of lamp voltage is now a parabola. In the top of the parabola we have set the nominal lamp voltage Vn and lamp power Pn (Pn, Un ) = (70W, 85V). The maximum lamp current is limited to 1A, while the maximum down converter output voltage, due to parabolical function, is limited to 170V (2x 85V). During ignition a higher output voltage of the down converter is preferred (> 170V). An ignition voltage control circuit is added to replace the power control by a voltage control when the output voltage is larger then 140V. In this way we force the down converter to act as an voltage source in the output voltage range of 140 340V. The 340V is used for the ignitor to generate the maximum ignition pulses of 5kV. Control loop design is left out of scope. The igniter is connected between the two mid-points of the full bridge an generates ignition pulses of 45kV-peak with a duration of 100usec and a repetition frequency of 115Hz (= commutation frequency). The break down device D2 is a sidac or break-over diode with a typical breakdown voltage of 340V. L2 is a fixed inductor of 270uH which limits the current through the break-over diode and saturates at 2A. After saturation the inductor value is 20uH. L3 is the ignitor transformer, which provides the 5kV maximum ignition voltage for the lamp. Zeners Z4-Z7 limit the voltage across the ignitor primary and thus secondary, this in order to prevent corona (ignition voltage < 5kV). Low frequency AC operation of the HID lamp is achieved by a full bridge commutator. The power part of the full bridge converter is formed by 4 bridge-configured power mosfets TR2-TR5, the lamp circuit and the UBA2032 driver IC. Capacitors C3 and C4 are for dV/dt limitation (EMI & protection of the power mosfets). Maximum dV/dt is 4V/nsec at maximum current of 30A. This result in minimum dV/dt-caps of 7.5 nF. Therefor a value of 10nF for C3 and C4 is chosen.

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Capacitors C14 and C15 are for bootstrapping cq. floating supply buffer. They provide sufficient gate drive energy for both high side drives. C13 is the low voltage supply buffer capacitor for IC supply and supply of low side drives. Overall voltage supply is provide through pin HV (pin 5)of the UBA2032. Resistor R26 and C16 form the RC oscillator setting. An R26 of 100kOhm and C16 of 82nF result in the typical (fixed) commutator frequency of 115Hz. Non-overlap timing is done automatically by the UBA2032 ICs internal adaptive non-overlap timing.

7.

QUICK MEASUREMENTS