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How to Pass Conducted EMC and Immunity. 5 Tricks

Dr. EMC 6,183 2 years ago
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Conducted emissions are common on electrical equipment. There are voltage transients, surges and harmonic distortion on mains too. In this video I will offer 5 personal tricks that I use all the time to prevent issues with conducted EMC and immunity. A quick note about PFC: as it provides AC rectification itself, when you add a PFC into an existing circuit, the VFD input stage will have a fixed DC input (~380V). This means that the rectifying diode bridge in VFD will simply pass the current with a slight voltage drop, without doing any rectification. In the video, I made it sound slightly abmbiguous, I think. You can read about PFC and its improvements on harmonic distortion here: https://www.ti.com/seclit/ml/slup390/slup390.pdf Standards mentioned in this video: EN61000-3-2 (Voltage Harmonics): https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/28164 EN61000-3-3 (Voltage Flicker) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/68776 EN61000-3-11 (Voltage Interruptions) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/27902 EN61000-4-2 (Elecrtostatic Discharge) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/4189 EN61000-4-4 (Burst Testing) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/4222 EN61000-4-5 (Surge Testing) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/4223 EN61000-6-3 (Residential Emissions) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/27413 EN61000-6-4 (Industrial Emissions) https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/26622 TIMELINE: 00:00 - Start 01:00 - 1. Differential and Common Mode Noise 01:57 - 1.1 EMI Filter 02:41 - 1.2 DM and CM Noise Filtering 03:55 - 2. Ground Loops 04:55 - 2.1 Galvanic Isolation 05:57 - 2.2 PCB Scissor Rule 07:19 - 2.3 Isolation Components 07:42 - 3. Inrush Current 08:52 - 3.1 Thermistors 10:13 - 3.2 Inrush Current Management 11:03 - 4. Voltage Surges and Transients 12:51 - 4.1 Varistors 13:39 - 4.2 Crowbar Clamping Circuit 14:16 - 4.3 Voltage Harmonics 15:17 - 4.4 Power Factor Correction 16:45 - 5. Electrostatic Discharge 18:15 - 5.1 TVS Diode Placement 18:57 - 5.2 Metalwork Connection 21:09 - Video Summary

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