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Hello to everyone.
I don't know if this is the correct subforum for my question, but its for a hobby project of mine so it will have to do!!
I want to make a (dual) H-bridge to control DC motors. I don't know yet which motors, but they will be 24V or 36V (or maybe 48V).
I'm getting fed up with the costs and poor performance of suitable P-mosfets for this project (especially ones that can withstand Vds of 48V) so I decided I will use only N-mosfets for this.
I don't want to use bootstrap drivers, because I want the high side mosfets to be active for however long i want, and as I understand it with such controllers I must disable the high side and enable the low side of each half-bridge in order for the bootstrap capacitor to charge.
So, my next idea was to use some sort of boost converter, to generate a voltage around 10 volts higher than what the motors will use and use that voltage to drive the high side mosfets.
Let's say for example I use 36V motors and I get a nice 45V voltage from the boost converter to drive the high side mosfets' gates.
I will post an image to help explain myself:
Suppose mosfet A is active, and D is pulsed (PWM). When D is in the off state, won't mosfet B see a Vgs of -36V ?
If that's the case it will for sure destroy the mosfet, as most claim maximum absolute Vgs of ±20V
How can I prevent this? Is it possible at all?
PS If you have any suggestions for a completely different way to do this please do tell! I just want to be able to have any high side mosfet constantly on.
I don't know if this is the correct subforum for my question, but its for a hobby project of mine so it will have to do!!
I want to make a (dual) H-bridge to control DC motors. I don't know yet which motors, but they will be 24V or 36V (or maybe 48V).
I'm getting fed up with the costs and poor performance of suitable P-mosfets for this project (especially ones that can withstand Vds of 48V) so I decided I will use only N-mosfets for this.
I don't want to use bootstrap drivers, because I want the high side mosfets to be active for however long i want, and as I understand it with such controllers I must disable the high side and enable the low side of each half-bridge in order for the bootstrap capacitor to charge.
So, my next idea was to use some sort of boost converter, to generate a voltage around 10 volts higher than what the motors will use and use that voltage to drive the high side mosfets.
Let's say for example I use 36V motors and I get a nice 45V voltage from the boost converter to drive the high side mosfets' gates.
I will post an image to help explain myself:
Suppose mosfet A is active, and D is pulsed (PWM). When D is in the off state, won't mosfet B see a Vgs of -36V ?
If that's the case it will for sure destroy the mosfet, as most claim maximum absolute Vgs of ±20V
How can I prevent this? Is it possible at all?
PS If you have any suggestions for a completely different way to do this please do tell! I just want to be able to have any high side mosfet constantly on.