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Subject: Re: EDM PCB mill

From: "curt_rxr" <cwrxr@...>
Date: 2005-06-30

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Bengt Sjölund <bengt@t...> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I´m very interested in building one of these Power Supplies too, but I
> have problems
> in finding the parts listed in the drawings from Scott.
>
> http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/dyndok.pl?dok=5014.htm
>
> These are the ones I can get locally, cant you tell me what part no's I
> can use to
> substitute the 16A and 60A IRG4's.
>
> Does anyone have info on the 100uH coils how these are winded?
>
> Stefan, any clue on how big transformer we will need for this? You also
> use 240V as I do?
> Is there any mods that can be done to get it working with 240V / 50Hz
>
>
> Cheers
> Bengt
>


Hi Bengt,

I ordered most of the parts from Digikey without problems.

I used a surplus 18 volt 2 amp transformer I had on hand and wound 12
guage magnet wire around surplus 2 inch toroids until I measured 100
microHenrys on my LCR meter.

For a 240 volt line you could probably use a full wave rectifier
instead of a bridge rectifier.

If the IGBT s are hard to find in the EU you could use Mosfets and
reconfigure the drivers. Probably be cheaper anyway....

HTH

Curt