Published by : International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) http://www.ijert.org ISSN: 2278-0181 Vol. 7 Issue 03, March-2018 Soft Start Circuit for Filament using TRIAC

Shyam Mohan V Senior Research Fellow- DRDO, Bangalore

Abstract - This paper presents the creation of a soft start circuit filament. Tetrode is a it has a Heater for that operates based on the current regulating property of Electron emission, its supply voltage has to be TRIAC. TRIAC act as barrier in AC circuit preventing the current flow before being triggered. Supply voltage to the increased step by step from low value to its rated value heater filament need to be increased step by step to rated value. for safety and long life of vacuum tube. In this By changing the firing angle (180-0) of , the voltage topology power flow is regulated to the Heater applied to the Heater filament can be varied. Using a zero Filament by applying a AC supply voltage crossing detector and mono-stable multi-vibrator circuit the intermittently across the load during each half cycle. firing angle is changed. Trigger pulse is given to the Triac using a photo-diac. The TRIAC is set into a conducting state At starting only 20% of the input sine wave is applied and current flows through the Heater Filament soon after the across the LOAD. Step by step as the Resistance of RC trigger voltage is applied to the photodiac. The amount of circuit decreases, the RC time constant of Mono-stable voltage seen over the Heater Filament is determined by the multi-vibrator decreases, thus pulse width of output firing angle of the triac which is fixed by RC time constant of the monostable circuit. Resistance is decreased step by step decreases. At the trailing edge of this pulse, pulse using the control circuit thus the firing angle is reduced and generating circuit will activate and it will give a pulse voltage across Filament is increased up to supply voltage. Using to the MOC3021 it will trigger the triac. Triac will photo-diac and phototransistor load circuit is galvanic isolated start conducting from that point to the starting of next from the control circuit. half cycle. The proportion of the sine wave applied

across the load increases as the pulse width of the INTRODUCTION mono-stable output decreases. Circuit design, This paper describes the design, operation, and operation, test results, and the interpretations that were testing of a soft start circuit, using Device such as 555 made during the experiments are shown below. timer, MOC3021, 74LS123 and triac, for tetrode

Topology.

Main circuit. side to the controlling circuit; the isolated pulse is applied to In the main circuit realized using a zero crossing detector the mono-stable. As the RC time constant of the mono- circuit, its output pulse is used as triggering pulse for mono- stable is decreased it will in turn reduce the firing angle, stable multi-vibrator. It’s a simple electronic circuit using thus the overall voltage coming across the load will the and a PnP . As the sinusoidal voltage increase. wave form crosses the zero point in every half cycle, it will apply adequate base voltage to the PNP transistor this will in In the circuit diagram variable is turn put the transistor in saturation region from cutoff represented as AB with a resistance value of region, it act as a switching circuit. Using a photo transistor 60KΩ(10+10+10+20)+10KΩ initially full resistance is this pulse is galvanic isolated from the main supply voltage

IJERTV7IS030106 www.ijert.org 165 (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.) Published by : International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) http://www.ijert.org ISSN: 2278-0181 Vol. 7 Issue 03, March-2018 coming across the RC circuit thus the pulse width will be of power factor PF, the maximum turn off voltage at the 6.6 msec. step by step resistance is decreased to 10KΩ thus output can be predicted: the pulse width decreases to 1.1 msec, firing angle decreases VT max = Vinmax *sin(arccos(PF)) to the minimum value. whenever the output of mono-stable Assume Vtmax = 240 V goes from high to low, it will trigger 74LS123 it will give a Choose R1 to limit the current peak at maximum voltage pulse output of fixed width(<1msec). R1=VinMax/Ifp, 339/1=339Ω. Standard value close to this is 360Ω. It is used to give base voltage of a transistor, it in turn give As the peak current is limited by the resistor R1, time pulse to the MOC3021 it will give gate triggering pulse to constant for limiting dV/dt has to be set using R2 and C: the triac. Triac will conduct from this point till the current dv/dt=Vtmax/ῖ = Vtmax/R2C. through it goes below the holding current. After some time Next, the value of R2 is set by determining the smallest of starting the total resistance of the RC time constant will trigger voltage requirement. Assuming a triac gate trigger decrease to 10K from 60KΩ, thus the triggering pulse will current IGT = X mA and a required load voltage (Vint). trigger the triac exactly at starting of every half cycle. Full voltage will obtain across the Load. R1+R2=Vint/X , we already know the value of R1, so we Photo-diac MOC3021 is used to trigger the Triac, can find out the value of R2. but the Triac may also be triggered to on state accidentally. Value of ῖ can be find out from dv/dt and Vtmax values. This can cause by exceeding the maximum blocking voltage From values of R2 and ῖ we can find out the value VDRM or by applying very steep rising signals to the output of C. of Triac. Such transient signals or noise may surpass the The dV/dt rating of the main triac and the dV/dt dV/dt rating of the triac driver and henceforth cause the rating of photo-diac shall be different. Thus, while designing device into on state. The TRIAC dV/dt ratings and its driver the snubber circuit the worst case value must be selected. and hence cause the device to proceed into ON state. The Control Circuit. dV/dt ratings of the triac and its driver are very important Control circuit mainly consists of 4 relays and 555 when switching inductive loads since load voltage and timers. Its operated in mono-stable mode as the mono stable current are not necessary in phase. Since a triac turns off output goes low a voltage will come across the coil, it when the load current equal zero, load voltage is not equal make the NO contacts to closed condition. It will remain in to zero. As a result, the triac produces a sudden rise in load this condition it power off. Current sinking and sourcing voltage as an output, which property of 555 timer is used for this, each of the mono- could exceed its dV/dt rating. stable timer output pulse width is set to 51.7 sec. Full To increase voltage rise time, a snubber circuit may voltage will be obtained after 3.5 minute at the Load side. be used. In majority of the cases, single snubber circuit shall protect the main triac and the photodiac. Comprehensive knowledge about the load is necessary while designing the RC snubber network for triac drivers. With the knowledge

A 10k 10k RLY1 RLY2 R5 R4 NC1 A NC1 D1 COM1 COM1 R32 NO1 NO1 2

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Relay condition Firing angle Output voltage(V)

All Relay off 119 45 Figure 2

1relay on 99 72

1,2 relay on 79 96

1,2,3 relay on 59 112

1,2,3,4 relay on 19 119

Figure 1

Figure 3 Figure 1

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Figure 4 Figure 5

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CONCLUSION Soft start circuit operation has been demonstrated REFERENCES

successfully with triac, relays, 555 timers etc on a dummy i) EE362L, Power , Triac Light Dimmer, load. With this circuit it’s observed that one can increase the Rochelle Stortz and Brian Taraba, Team 277 intensity of a voltage across the Tetrode Filament step by ii) http://electronicdesign.com/power/hard-facts-soft- step in an automatic way. The RC time constant used to switching determine the point when triac conducts the AC wave through the Filament during each half cycle. The firing angle of Triac decreases as relays in the control circuit operates one by one thus voltage across the filament increases, when all the 4 relays operates full voltage will come across the filament .For the protection of Triac and photo-diac snubber circuit is implemented.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT I gratefully acknowledge support and facilities provided by Institute for Plasma Research (Dept of Atomic Energy), During my work period as a project Engineer (2013- 2015) .

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