
NCL30073LED4GEVB
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THEORY OF OPERATION
Power Stage
The power stage is a flying buck boost design. In this
configuration, drain of the switching FET is connected to the
rectified HVDC and the source is switching. This has many
benefits:
1. Direct output current sensing
2. Direct output voltage sensing
3. No Aux winding needed
The power stage operates as a fixed frequency DCM
power stage. The DCM allows for no forced commutation
of the output diode for good EMI performance. The fixed
current/fixed frequency provides for a constant power
control over a large portion of the input waveform. The
resistor divider of R27 and R29 provides some wave shaping
to improve the power factor. The input current waveform is
made to be square for maximum TRIAC dimmer
compatibility.
Figure 2.
Output Voltage Sense and Vcc generation
Dout1 is in parallel with the output during the off time of
the FET and stores energy in Cvcc. R36 and R37 divide the
output voltage and Q2 buffers it to provide Vcc power to the
controller. Since the divider is a fixed ratio, Vcc is a fixed
percentage of the output voltage. When Vcc rises above
25 V, the controller detects and OVP fault. The maximum
output voltage is set by adjusting the ratio of R36/R37.
In cases where the output has a lot of ripple current and the
LED has high dynamic resistance, the peak output voltage
can be much higher than the average output voltage. The
inductor winding will charge the Cvcc to the peak of the
output voltage which may trigger the OVP sooner than
expected so in this case the peak voltage of the LED string
is critical.
Protection
Thermal Protection
Rtco is a PTC connected between the CS pin and Rsens.
The controller creates and internal signal current from the
CS pin. As the resistance of Rtco becomes larger with
temperature, the signal level at the CS pin increases causing
the current to foldback with temperature.
Programmable OVP
R36 and R37 set Vcc as a fixed percentage of the output
voltage. The OVP threshold on the controller is 25 V. So the
ratio of R36/R37 is set to trip the Vcc OVP threshold at about
100 V output.
Overcurrent Protection
The controller has built in overcurrent limits.
Output Current
The output current is set by the value of Rsens. It’s
possible to adjust the output current by changing Rsens.
TRIAC Dimming Compatibility
The EMI filter components are selected to provide
optimum damping of the EMI filter to eliminate ringback of
the input current which will lead to loss of hold current in the
dimmer. The square nature of the input current makes the
best case for TRIAC holding current over the line cycle
while still maintaining power factor above 0.9.