TIDUF04 December 2022
Electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) facilitates power delivery to electric vehicles safely from the grid. An EVSE control system consists of an auxiliary power stage, an off-board AC/DC high-power stage (only in DC charging stations), energy metering unit, AC and DC residual current detector, an isolation monitor unit, relays and contactors with drive, two-way communication over single wire, and service and user interfaces. This reference design highlights an ultra-low standby isolated AC/DC auxiliary power stage followed by converters and linear regulators, a comparator-based control pilot interface to meet the IEC61851 standard, an efficient relay and contactor drive, plug lock motor driver, flux gate circuit to detect AC and DC currents for RCD applications, and isolated line voltage sensing across the relay and contactor.