TIDUD61E October 2020 – April 2021
Input cap causes PF degradation if the current reference is maintained perfectly in sync with the voltage as shown in Equation 8 and in Figure 3-46(a).
The current reference can be adjusted with vectors to offset the PF degradation, Equation 9, Figure 3-46(b) . As the angle from the phase locked loop is used to compute the vector this technique is called the digital phase locked loop vector cancellation (DPLLVC) technique. This improves PF at light load and high line significantly.
The amount of correction applied depends on the input capacitor value, for example on this design the input cap is 2.2 µF. Which means at high line a capacitive current equal to is drawn. Under light loads, this is significant amount of current and causes power factor loss. The current sensor gain on this design is approximately 24 A, so this translates to an adjustment of approximately 0.01 pu for the high-line condition.
Furthermore, there is a tracking error under low power conditions. This tracking error can be offset by an adjustment to the current command shown in Figure 3-46©). The amount of this tracking error is adjusted empirically for the best performance from the system. Thus the total current reference is given by Equation 10.
The result for PF improvement are graphed in Figure 3-47.