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L6566B
Application information
19/51
With reference to the timing diagram of
Figure 6
, when power is first applied to the converter
the voltage on the bulk capacitor (Vin) builds up and, at about 80V, the HV generator is
enabled to operate (HV_EN is pulled high) so that it draws about 1 mA. This current, minus
the device’s consumption, charges the bypass capacitor connected from pin Vcc (5) to
ground and makes its voltage rise almost linearly.
Figure 6.
Timing diagram: normal power-up and power-down sequences
As the Vcc voltage reaches the turn-on threshold (14V typ.) the device starts operating and
the HV generator is cut off by the Vcc_OK signal asserted high. The device is powered by
the energy stored in the Vcc capacitor until the self-supply circuit (typically an auxiliary
winding of the transformer and a steering diode) develops a voltage high enough to sustain
the operation. The residual consumption of this circuit is just the one on the 15 M
resistor
(
≈
10 mW at 400 Vdc), typically 50-70 times lower, under the same conditions, as compared
to a standard start-up circuit made with external dropping resistors.
At converter power-down the system will lose regulation as soon as the input voltage is so
low that either peak current or maximum duty cycle limitation is tripped. Vcc will then drop
and stop IC activity as it falls below the UVLO threshold (10V typ.). The Vcc_OK signal is
de-asserted as the Vcc voltage goes below a threshold VCC
rest
located at about 5V. The HV
generator can now restart. However, if Vin < Vin
start
, as illustrated in
Figure 6
, HV_EN is de-
asserted too and the HV generator is disabled. This prevents converter’s restart attempts
and ensures monotonic output voltage decay at power-down in systems where brownout
protection (see the relevant section) is not used.
The low restart threshold VCC
rest
ensures that, during short circuits, the restart attempts of
the device will have a very low repetition rate, as shown in the timing diagram of
Figure 7 on
page 20
, and that the converter will work safely with extremely low power throughput.
Vcc
(pin 5)
Vcc
ON
GD
(pin 4)
HV_EN
Vcc
OFF
Vcc
restart
t
t
t
t
Vin
V
HVstart
I
charge
0.85 mA
t
t
Vcc_OK
Power-on
Power-off
Normal
operation
regulation is lost here