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sjh7132


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There were experiments leading up to the MPPT design.

 

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Hi, I did a bi-directional DC motor that used a voltage doubler to drive the fets. Are the videos still listed?  I would like to try to fabricate a basic Buck converter to see if it helps the turbines performance.

 



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sjh7132


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Can a Buck converter improve turbine performance???
 

My MPPT board is a buck converter.  That little box that says "control" is the rest of the board. :-)    I also have a transistor in parallel with the diode and it turns on at the right time to provide less of a voltage drop (synchronous rectificaion).

There are some challanges to the circuit.  One being that the gate of the transistor has to be drivien at least 5 volts above the voltage it's switching.    That's a royal pain!

I have a few youtube videos showing a buck converter on a turbine with just a fixed dutycycle oscillator.

 



-- Edited by sjh7132 on Thursday 5th of January 2012 03:45:26 PM

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Can a Buck converter improve turbine performance???
 

After watching Steves video on MPPT, I wonder if a Buck converter would improve turbine performance by limiting the affect of additional loading created by the stators internal resistance.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter 

 

 I found a article in Power Electronics Technology_ June 2006 Buck-Converter Design Demystified 

 

http://my.ece.ucsb.edu/Bobsclass/194/References/NonIsolated/Buck/Buck%20Converter%20Design%20Demystified%20606PET25.pdf 

 

The article provides methods for selecting component values for a basic step down converter circuit.

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-- Edited by GoVertical on Thursday 5th of January 2012 03:39:35 AM



-- Edited by GoVertical on Thursday 5th of January 2012 03:41:14 AM

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