
Figure 4 :
Application Circuit (SO–16).
CIRCUIT OPERATION
TheL482controltheconductiontime(dwell)andthe
peakvalueof theprimary currentin thecoiloverthe
full rangeof operatingconditions.
The coil current is limited to a predeterminedlevel
by meansof a negativefeedbackcircuit including a
current sensing resistor, a comparator, the driver
stageand the power switch.
The dwellcontrolcircuit maintainsthe outputstage
in itsactiveregionduringcurrentlimitation. Thetime
the outputstageis in theactiveregion(desaturation
time) is sufficient to compensatefor possiblevaria-
tions in thenergy storeddue to the accelerationof
the motor ; moreover thistime is limited to avoidex-
cessivepower dissipation.
CONTROL OF THE DWELL ANGLE (fig. 1 and 4)
The dwell angle control circuit calculates the con-
ductiontime Dfor the outputtransistorin relation to
the speedof rotation, to the supply voltage and to
the characteristic of thecoil.
On the negativeedgeof the Hall-effect input signal
the capacitorC
2
beginsdischargingwith a constant
currentI
3D
. When the set peakvalue of thecoil cur-
rent is reached, this capacitor charges with a con-
stant current I
3C
= 13.3 x I
3D
and the coil currentis
kept constantby desaturatingthe driver stage and
the externaldarlington.
The capacitor C
5
starts charging on the positive
edge of the Hall-effect input signal with a constant
currentI
4C
.
Thedwellangle,andconsequentlythestartingpoint
of thecoilcurrentproduction,isdecidedbythecom-
parisonbetweenV
C2
andV
C5
. Apositivehysteresis
is added to thedwell comparatorto avoidspurious
effectsand C
5
is rapidlydischargedon thenegative
edgeof Hall-effectsinput signal.
In this way the average voltageon C
2
increases if
the motorspeed decreases and viceversain order
to maintainconstanttheratiotdat anymotorspeed.
T
td is kept constant (and not d = cost) to control the
power dissipation and to have sufficient time to
avoidlow energy sparksduring acceleration.
The chargingtime D – td dependson the coil and
the voltagesupply.
DESATURATION TIMES IN STATIC CONDI-
TIONS.Instaticconditions,if C
2
=C
5
asrecommen-
dedand if the valuesof the applicationcircuit of fig.
3, 4are used.
td
1
=
T
1 + I
3C
/I
3D
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