Typical of automotive stuff, for the same reason: conduction loss = dominates over copper loss at low voltages. And for really low = voltages, you use MOSFETs instead of schottkies, in a synchronous = rectifier.
PP at line voltages would be silly, because you have twice the peak = voltage (requiring 800V+ transistors for 240V input) and a lot more = turns, increasing capacitance that you don't need in a hard switching = forward converter.
Half bridge is great at line voltages because it only sees full rated = voltage and needs one winding.
Tim
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:50:22 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
--- I originally misread the OP's post WRT frequency, and the work I did was based on 100Hz.
The only "concrete" spec's he had were a triangular 300Hz, 40VRMS waveform across across a 3µF cap.
At 300Hz, the reactance of a 3µF cap is about 177 ohms and would require about a 94 millihenry choke for resonance.
Switching the supply through the choke would result in a sinusoidal voltage across the cap, and since the OP wanted a triangle, Larkin's suggestion of using a larger choke to increase its reactance and more nearly approximate a "lossless" current source for the cap was a good one.
I reworked the circuit and increased the inductance to 1 henry, which will bring the choke's reactance up to about 1900 ohms and lower the circuit's resonance to about 92Hz.
Hammond has a nice 1 henry, 300 mA, 40 ohm choke, its 158T, which is a little pricey (?) at $18.49 from Mouser, but they have at least 1 in stock.
It's starting to look like this thing might be able to be built!
(And work) ;)
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