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On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:57:22 -0000 (UTC), "Don" <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> If one had, say, a 48 volt power bus, you could hang a half-bridge
>> switcher to ground, and a lowpass filter out. If the drive has duty
>> cycle n, the output voltage is 48*n. So we have a programmable power
>> supply with no feedback, which will be stable into any load.
>>
>> The load regulation will be mediocre, but we could almost sell it
>> as-is.
>>
>> So now, sense the output voltage and compute the error against the
>> target, run through a slowish integrator, and tweak the PWM to get
>> zero output voltage error. Gross transient response is basically the
>> response of the output filter, with some modest drool from the
>> integrator.
>>
>> We can constrain the influence range of the integrator, just enough to
>> give the regulation that we need. That limits output swing in case the
>> feedback is wrong, as one could get from a botched remote sense
>> connection.
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2fysyvkl4eim7vujhaobh/FFINT_PS_1.jpg?rlkey=rug6yi3cgemi9vvbz8apgboqi&raw=1
>
>Is your "spread spectrum" dodad supposed to mitigate EMI?
>
>Danke,

It will help pass CE lab tests, by about 20 dB. It's easy, so why not?