• DocumentCode
    797990
  • Title

    50-kW Thyristor DC-to-DC Converter

  • Author

    Morman, William H., Jr. ; Ramsey, Milton H. ; Hoft, Richard G.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Corporation, Rochester, Minn. 55901.
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1972
  • Firstpage
    617
  • Lastpage
    635
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) dc-to-dc converter. A switching type circuit is employed which controls the power to a load by connecting the dc source to the load and disconnecting it from the load in a cyclical manner. The on to off time ratio is varied to control the average voltage delivered to the load. Either a constant frequency variable pulsewidth mode, or a constant pulsewidth variable frequency mode of operation is used. This means of controlling a dc voltage is a nearly lossless scheme with high efficiency SCR switches.
  • Keywords
    DC-DC power converters; Electric variables control; Frequency; Joining processes; Pulse circuits; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches; Switching circuits; Thyristors; Voltage control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-9994
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIA.1972.349791
  • Filename
    4158303