Simplest Full Bridge Inverter Circuit

Among the different existing inverter topologies, the full bridge or the H-bridge topology is considered to be the most efficient and effective. Configuring a full bridge topology could involve too many criticality, however with the advent of full bridge driver ICs these have now become one of the simplest inverters one can build.


Full bridge inverter circuits also called the H-bridge inverter, are the truly efficient ones since these do not require a center tapped transformers and yet are able to implement the intended push-pull functions right across the entire primary winding of the attached tansformers.
This feature allows the use of smaller transformers and get more power outputs at the same time.

Today due to the easy availability of full bridge driver ICs things have become utterly simple and making a full bridge inverter circuit at home has become a kids play.

Here we discuss a full bridge inverter circuit using the full bridge driver IC IRS2453(1)D from International Rectifiers.

The mentioned chip is an outstanding full bridge driver IC as it single handedly takes care of  all the major criticality involved with H-bridge topologies through its advanced in-built circuitry.

The assembler simply needs to connect a few handful of components externally for achieving a full fledged, working H-bridge inverter.

The simplicity of the design is evident from the diagram shown below:

Pin14 and pin10 are the high side floating supply voltage pinouts of the IC. The 1uF capacitors effectively keep these crucial pinouts a shade higher than the drain voltages of the corresponding mosfets ensuring that the mosfet source potential stays lower than the gate potential for the required conduction of the mosfets.

The gate resistors suppress drain/source surge possibility by preventing sudden conduction of the mosfets.

The diodes across the gate resistors are introduced for quick discharging of the internal gate/drain capacitors during their non-conduction periods for ensuring optimal response from the devices.

The IC IRS2453(1)D is also featured with an in-built oscillator, meaning no external oscillator stage would be required with this chip.

Just a couple of external passive components take care of the frequency for driving the inverter.

Rt and Ct can be calculated for getting the intending 50Hz or 60 Hz frequency outputs over the mosfets.

The following formula can be used for calculating the values of Rt/Ct:

f = 1/1.453 x Rt x Ct where Rt is in Ohms and Ct in Farads.

Another interesting feature of this IC is its ability to handle very high voltages upto 600V making it perfectly applicable for transformeless inverters or compact ferrite inverter circuits.

As can be seen in the given diagram, if an externally accessible 330V DC is applied across the "+/- AC rectified lines", the configuration instantly becomes a transformerless inverter wherein any intended load can be connected directly across the points marked as "load".

Alternatively if an ordinary step-down transformer is used, the primary winding can be connected across the points marked as "load". In this case the "+AC rectified line" can be joined with pin#1 of the IC and terminated commonly to the battery (+) of the inverter.

If a battery higher than 15V is used, the "+AC rectified line" should be connected directly with the battery positive while pin#1 should be applied with a stepped down regulated 12V from the battery source using IC 7812.

Although the below shown design looks too easy to construct, the layout requires some strict guidelines to be followed, you may refer to the following post for ensuring the correct approach for proposed simple full bridge inverter circuit.

http://homemadecircuitsandschematics.blogspot.in/2013/09/mosfet-protection-basics-explained-is.html





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