The project is in its begging, the plan is to build a electronic load to evaluate PSUs and, if possible, help to design more efficient ones. The electronic load should be able to hold at least 100W, providing in a display or via PC interface the following parameters: Set current/voltage/power, actual current/voltage/power, it will be cool if i can implement some efficiency calculations to it and graph all the acquired data.
and it worked pretty well for DC references but not so well for frequencies of more than some hundreds of hertz (due to low gain opamps and high mosfet capacitances). I was able to control the dissipation of 250W with these heatsinks:
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Thanks for the heat sink recommendation, i will probably increase the power capacity once i have a working controller. Which opamp/mosfet combination did you use?
Hey Jean, how are you?
I have made something similar during my summer internship @ UBC Vancouver (Canada); what is have done is exactly this: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/129609/how-does-this-constant-current-sink-actually-work
and it worked pretty well for DC references but not so well for frequencies of more than some hundreds of hertz (due to low gain opamps and high mosfet capacitances). I was able to control the dissipation of 250W with these heatsinks:
add me back on hackaday so that we can talk more, if you wish so.