Power Distribution Board

AC/DC converter for powering the Z-axis motor via the A3200 NDrive Cp controller. The AC power is drawn from the wall socket.

Source(input): 110V, 5A

Motor Input (output): 4VDC, 1A.

 

CONNECTION DIAGRAM:

connection-diagram

SCHEMATIC:

schematic

BOARD LAYOUT:

board

 

EFFICIENCY CALCULATIONS:

Previously calculated efficiency of LM371T was about 16%, using [1 – ((Vin – Vout)/(Vin))]).

New efficiency (with the change in transformer) is about 32%.

Total efficiency of the system comes out to be .8*.32 = 25.6%. Where 80% is the efficiency of the transformer.