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How to design a common mode filter?

Greetings:

For my PWM amp design that has been beaten about in thread "PWM Amp Design" I am now interested in implementing a common mode output filter, per the valuable suggestion of Nico Coesel.

Trouble is, I need to know what load impedance is presented to the output of a filter in order to get the right LC values.

What to figure for the common mode load Z for the output of a PWM amp? The load is isolated from ground, of course, since the H-bridge output is differential and doesn't mean much with respect to ground.

Should the common mode filter be just a common mode choke or a common mode choke followed by a capacitor on each output leg to ground?

How does one typically chose a common mode output filter?

Thanks for input.

Good day!

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My millidegree Peltier controller used a common filter to clean up the output from the PWM output stage into the Peltier junction.

E-mail me if you want me to send you a copy of the paper, which contains a brief discussion of the common mode filter as well as a circuit diagram (figure 8), but you can also get it from "Measurement Science and Technology" volume 7, pages 1653-64 (1996). Sandia should have access to the U.K. Institute of Physics web site

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where you could pick up the .pdf file from the digital archives.

We used a bought-in balun as well as four power chokes, four ferrite beads, and three 1.0uF film capacitors - two going to ground and the third across the input to the balun. It seemed to work.

Component values were largely chosen on the basis of the space available for the parts we could buy from distributors - we had enough control of the PWM frequencies that we could avoid the filter resonances, rather than damping them.

-------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Bill, if you could please send me a .pdf I'd appreciate it.

Send to my email below (after fixing it, of course.)

Thanks!

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