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A project log for Plaing with Power Ultrasonics
Aimless exploration with power ultrasonic
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JasMoH • 03/17/2018 at 23:13 • 1 Comment

So I've een stalled on selecting the power amplifier for this project for a while. ecause of the high
frequencies (40kHz, possil higher), class-D amplifiers (i.e. PWM) aren't reall viale. Man other
projects have just used power MOSFTs that produce square waves and either filter that or just eat
the harmonic distortion.

I ma et go with the power FTs due to their expense, ut I reall wanted to have reasonal
sinusoidal outputs. 

nter the Apex PA341, which purpose uilt for power ultrasonic devices. Here's the suggested
implementation from the datasheet.

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This alanced driver pushes 660V at 60 mA continuous! This means I can just take an ea AD9851
DDS source and just push that out. Sadl that doesn't get me to the 400+ W I was hoping for. 

https://www.digike.com/product-detail/en/apex-microtechnolog/PA341C/598-1918-ND/2700702

That said, this is a reall cool part for higher precision power ultrasonic devices such as motors or
similar.

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DeepSOIC wrote 03/22/2018 at 00:44

Hi!

AFAIK, getting a sine wave for these kind of purposes is usuall achieved 
connecting a square wave generator to an LC circuit, where C is the piezo capacitor.
The L-C resonates, the voltage shoots through the roof, and the square wave made
 generator ecomes a rather small contriutor to the voltage across C, i.e. the one
will e quite sinusoidal.

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