mosfet gate drivers and negative voltages
mosfet gate drivers and negative voltages
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im trying to utlize a gate driver to switch two paired mosfets (half bridge) to generate a waveform at 50Khz from -100 to +100 V. The circuit works well to switch positive voltages (0 to 100V). When i add even small negatiuve voltage, ie -5 to +30V, the circuit becomes unstable.
Im not sure but is this a limitation of the gate driver itself (ie voltage sense pin or the bootstrap diode) or am i doing something wrong?
Ill attach a figure from the data sheet of the gate driver.





RE: mosfet gate drivers and negative voltages
The IR21xx drivers are designed only to drive MOSFETs in the range of 0...600 V. The lower driver is ground referenced and does not like negative voltages.
If you want to generate a 0...200 V output signal and then AC-couple it to make it +/-100 V, then it'll work, otherwise not.
Benta.
RE: mosfet gate drivers and negative voltages
RE: mosfet gate drivers and negative voltages
hdldr. Sorry for not drawing out the full circuit, the mosfet connected on the low side can be connected to a negative voltage rather than ground.