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LT3751 - Fault-pin goes LOW immediately after starting a new charging cycle

Anonymous
Anonymous

    Hi. 

    I am working on a capacitor-charger designed much similar to your evaluation board for the LT3751. My simulation-model: Schematic 

    I am experiencing that the FAULT-pin goes LOW right after I start a new charging cycle... 

    What I can see from the oscilloscope, the current-sources on OVLO1-2 / UVLO1-2 does not draw any current until the FAULT-pin goes LOW, meaning that the voltage on the OVLO/ UVLO - pins are at Vcc/V-trans at the time measuring over/under - voltages ... Which could be the reason why the system thinks over-voltage has occurred. 

    Picture of oscilloscope: signals (Blue = OVOL2 , Pink = Charge-pin (ramping up) , yellow = FAULT-pin)

    Is this right? or could the chip be damaged? I do not see this behaviour in the simulation-model for the evaluation-kit.  

    The design is the same as for my previous prototype, but here i did not experience this issue.