Pocket Power Supply
Course: ELECTENG 311
Year: 2021
Grade: A-
Course: ELECTENG 311
Year: 2021
Grade: A-
The goal of this project was to design and develop a pocket-sized power supply that could replace a low-voltage supply found on a typical lab bench top.
The power supply is implemented using a Flyback converter to produce an isolated output voltage, which can be controlled by the user.
The output voltage and current requested by the user is synthesized by controlling the switch of the Flyback converter using a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal. The PWM is generated using a UC3843 IC as per the output of a PI controller implemented on an ATMega328P micro-controller.
Analogue simulations were all conducted on software's such as LTSpice, Ansys and Proteus.
Atmel studio was used to interact with the micro-controller using the programming language, C.
Managed to get the power supply 100x smaller by increasing the frequency to 100kHz and shrinking the transformer size.
The resultant system can constantly provide an output voltage with an error of no more than 3% and an average response time of 10ms at varying loads, which deems this system reliable and efficient to be used in the real world.