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common mode emission currents as follows:
I
:  Splits  into earth  ground  component  and  secondary
component.   Secondary  current  component returns to the
TOPSwitch
 Drain through transformer capacitance.   Earth
ground component returns up from ground into the neutral
wire (and is sensed by the LISN), AC couples into the Line
wire (and is sensed by the LISN), flows back through  bridge
diodes  (either  superimposing  on  line  frequency  current
during bridge diode conduction or through effective bridge
diode capacitance when diodes are not conducting), to V+
and V- bus wires, and returns to the 
TOPSwitch
  Drain pin
through C
W5
 and C
OSS
.
I
: Splits   between  C
   returning  to  primary
,
  C
  to
earth ground, and C
.  Splits again between C
 and earth
ground.  Earth ground components returns through neutral
and line  wires  (as explained above)  and is  sensed  by the
LISN.
I
: Splits between C
 and  earth ground.   Earth ground
component   returns  through  neutral   and  line  wires  (as
explained above) and is sensed by the LISN.
I
:  Splits between C
 (note that  C
  Equivalent Series
Inductance or ESL will choke off high frequencies) andV-.
V- component flows out the bridge rectifier, down through
line and neutral wires (and is sensed by the LISN) to earth
CS1
CS2
CW6
CW2
CW5
COSS
CW3
CW4
ESL
ESR
VAC
VDIODE
VDRAIN
CAC
 CBD4
CBD1
CBD3
CBD2
CIN
V+
V-
+
-
PI-1644-111695
CW1
Figure 33. Circuit Origin for Common Mode Emissions.
CW
: Winding capacitance from “noisy” or switching side
of the transformer primary to “quiet” side of the secondary.
CW
: Winding   capacitance   from   “quiet”   side  of   the
transformer   primary to the “noisy” or switching side of the
secondary.
CW
: Winding   capacitance   from   “quiet”   side  of   the
transformer primary to the “quiet” side  of  the  secondary.
(This is actually a “good” stray capacitance  term which is
usually augmented with an additional, Y-capacitor to return
displacement currents back to the driving source).
CW
5
: Winding capacitance across the primary.
CW
6
: Winding capacitance across the secondary  (CW
 and
CW
 combine to cause a transformer resonant frequency of
400 kHz to 2 MHz above which each winding impedance is
capacitive rather than inductive).
The 
TOPSwitch
 Drain node directly drives displacement current
into each of the following stray capacitance terms:   C
S1
, C
W1
,
C
W2
, C
, and C
.  Each displacement current (I
, I
, I
,
I
, and I
CW5
) must eventually return to the driving node
(
TOPSwitch
some fraction of each displacement current may flow through
the power supply AC input conductors and be measured as