Unfamiliar PWM IC.

Feb 15, 2011 2 Replies

I haven't closely examined many different computer PSUs. The ones I've taken apart are mostly cheap Chinese ones and they're all closely similar. Most of them use a TL494 or an SG3525 as the PWM controller. Today, I happened to look at an old ATX PSU PCB which uses a chip I'm not familiar with. The number is LPG-899 and it has "Linkworld" printed in cursive font. The logo is a filled triangle with a globe inserted half way on one side. Curious, I searched for a datasheet but couldn't find one. That made me even more curious and I kept on searching for some time, without success.



It's in a 16-pin DIP package but the pin-outs are different from the ones I know about. The push-pull outputs are taken from pin 7 and 8, driving two C945 transistors (Japanese low-power NPNs) which in turn drive the output transistors.. The +5V output of the PSU is fed back directly to pin 2, so this looks like Vcc. The +12V output is goes via a resistive voltage divider to pin 3. Pin 5 is grounded. I didn't check the rest. Is anyone familiar with this IC?


Seems to be similar to the 494. but a Chinese custom IC. See this link

Or use Google and search for "LPG-899 pwm", look for the YoReparo spanish link and translate

Cheers

Thanks. And sorry about the very late reply.

I had some trouble with the site but managed to get it. The WT7520 mentioned on the site also looks very closely similar to the LPG-899 except that the timing element at pin 6 is a resistor while the LPG-899 uses a capacitor.

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