Crown FM30 - Power Regulator Circuit Board; RF Driver;Amplifier (FM30)

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FM30/FM100/FM250 User's Manual
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4.9 Power Regulator Circuit Board
The power regulator board is the shorter of two boards mounted under the chassis
toward the front of the unit. The board has the isolating diode for the battery
input, the switch-mode voltage regulator for the RF power amplifier, and circuitry
for PA supply current metering.
Illustration 6–12 and accompanying schematic complement this discussion.
Diode D804, in series with the battery input, together with the AC-supply diode
bridge, provides diode OR-ing of the AC and DC supplies.
U801 and U802 form a switching regulator running at about 35 kHz. U801 is used
as a pulse-width modulator; U802 is a high-side driver for MOSFET switch Q801.
Power for the two IC’s comes from the 20–volt supply voltage for the RF driver
(available when the Carrier switch is on). The voltage is controlled at 16 volts by
zener diode DZ801. Bootstrap voltage provided by D802 and C809 allows the gate
voltage of Q801 to swing about 16 volts above the source when Q801 is turned on.
Current through the FET is sensed by R812A and R812B. If the voltage from pin 5
to 6 of U802 exceeds 0.23 volts on a current fault, drive to Q801 is turned off. This
happens on a cycle-by-cycle basis. The speed of the turnoff is set by C805.
U803 and Q802 are used in a circuit to convert the current that flows through
metering shunt, R819, into a current source at the collector of Q803. Forty
millivolts is developed across R819 for each amp of supply current (.04 ohms x 1
amp). Q803 is biased by U803 to produce the same voltage across R816. The
collector current of Q803 is the same (minus base current) as that flowing through
R822 resulting in 40 microamperes per amp of shunt current. R405 on the
metering board converts Q803 collector current to 0.1 volt per amp of shunt
current (.04 ma X 2.49 k). (See section 5.4.)
4.10 RF Driver/Amplifier (FM30)
The RF Driver/Amplifier assembly is mounted on a 100 mm x 100 mm plate in the
under side of the chassis. The driver amplifies the approximate 20 milliwatts from
the frequency synthesizer to 30 watts. An MHW6342T hybrid, high-gain, wideband
amplifier, operating at about 20 volts, provides about one watt of drive to a single
BLF245 MOSFET amplifier. The BLF245 stage operates from a supply voltage of
28 volts in the FM30.
The circuit board has components for input and output coupling and for power
supply filtering.