Part Number: DRV2700
Good afternoon,
I'm using the dev board DRV2700EVM-HV500 to drive an actuator, Kemet AE0505D16DF, and working to design DRV2700 into a board for a new product of ours. The actuator has 17um nominal displacement at 150V, so we're using the HV500 with external flyback circuit to get the full range of motion. Unfortunately I'm seeing a lot of ripple and noise at the output.
1. ~7VPP "bursts" occurring at 530KHz with 7MHz ringing that aligns with the switching of transistor Q1
(see scope capture, OutputBursts.tif. CH3 (purple) is output noise (AC), Ch2 (blue) is Q1 gate)
2. Larger 20-30VPP "glitches" occurring at 30-45 Hz intervals
(see scope captures, OutputGlitches.tif and OutputGlitchesZoomed.tif. CH1 (yellow) is DC output, CH3 (purple) is output noise (AC), Ch2 (blue) is Q1 gate)
I have a DC input connected to TP1 on DRV2700EVM-HV500 and vary from 0 to 3.3V. Switches are set to Up/Up, and I manually avoid running the piezo above its limit of 150V. My goal is to have minimal ripple at the output, with 2 piezos (and 2 DRV2700s) driving x/y angular adjustments to a mirror in a closed loop at up to 5KHz frequencies (i.e., small adjustments are made to the essentially DC input 5000 times per second).
The actuator I'm using has 1.4uF according to the datasheet. I've found that using a similar part with smaller cross-sectional area (AE0203D16DF) has 0.35uF capacitance and does not exhibit "glitches", but still has "bursts". So I gather that load capacitance is causing the worst of these oscillations.
How would you recommend tuning this circuit to minimize output oscillations and ripple? Decrease load caps C5 and C6 (DNP)? Increase/decrease feedback caps C18, C19, C21? I'd like to get the full 17um displacement from this actuator by going up to 150V, but I've also considered the DRV2700EVM configuration that does not include the flyback circuit but is limited to 105V. Would you expect that circuit, which does not have a transistor Q1, would not exhibit these problems?
Thank you very much for any feedback at all. I'm excited you have this part that looks to be just what I need, if I can only get the oscillations under control.
Andy
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