DocumentCode
1943772
Title
A summary of resonant snubber circuits for transistors and GTOs
Author
Tardiff, Dale ; Barton, T.H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
fYear
1989
fDate
1-5 Oct. 1989
Firstpage
1176
Abstract
Various resonant circuits are reviewed and compared in order to unify the different design methods that are available for low-loss snubbers. Two passive resonant snubbers are described in detail, with some design guidelines for selecting all the snubber components. This is supplemented by experimental results obtained when utilizing these two snubbers to protect a power Darlington transistor module.<>
Keywords
overvoltage protection; power transistors; thyristors; GTOs; power Darlington transistor module; resonant snubber circuits; thyristors; Power dissipation; Protection; Pulse width modulation; RLC circuits; Resistors; Resonance; Snubbers; Switching circuits; Switching frequency; Voltage;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1989., Conference Record of the 1989 IEEE
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA, USA
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IAS.1989.96791
Filename
96791
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