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The Importance Of Current Sense Resistor In Switch Mode Power Supply

Current sense resistor is usually located power section will blow and
in the switch mode power most of the time the components changed
supply section. Newer version of are fuse, power fet, pwm ic,
monitor-the b+ (boost) circuit zener diode and current sense
also have this current sense resistor. resistor.Do you know that a small change
If you repair electronic in this current sense resistor value
equipment especially the switch mode have a great impact on the secondary
power supplies, the current output? A little change in value
sensing resistor is connected to the say from 0.22 ohm to 0.44 ohm can caused
source pin of power FET (field your ouput voltage to drop
effect transistor) and the other end to into half! I have seen a lot of repairer
HOT GROUND. The value of can't detect this type of
current sense resistor is in the range problem (low output voltage) due to that
of 0.1 ohm to about 1 ohm. they used analog or digital
The values are depends on the design of meter that don't have the low ohms
each power supply.In monitor power supply range. You can't differentiate
where pulse width modulation (pwm) ic if the low ohms resistor has its value
UC3842 changed by using normal meters.
are used. Pin 3 of this power ic is I personally use the Dick Smith ESR
called I-sense which means Meter which have the capabilities
current sense and this pin is connected to check resistor value down to 0.01
to source pin of POWER FET. ohm! If you don't have this
The purpose of this current sense special meter you may just direct
circuit is for overcurrent protection. replace the current sense resistor
This circuit usually samples the voltage to see if the generated secondary output
drop across a resistor in series will back to normal voltage.Another tip
with the switching fet transistor. If is that if the current sense resistor in
the current rises abnormally due to the monitor
some short circuit in the secondary side B+ circuit have changed value it will
such as a shorted secondary diode caused the output in the
or horizontal output transistor (HOT), boost circuit to become low and you will
the voltage will exceed a reference have a small width display
level and shutdown the pulse generator and of course the high voltage will
which is the PWM ic. This circuit become low as well. Instead of
provides protection to components in the 24Kv it becomes 15-18Kv.Jestine Yong is
event a problem occurs. a electronic repairer and a writer.
In some cases where overload happen-the




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