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3.8
Countering Noise
Types and Features of Noise Sources
Commercial Power Supply
It is necessary to consider both 50 and 60Hz as noise components. It is important to note that a
power supply line in which a thyristor or inverter is incorporated functions not only as an “energy
surplus line”, but also as a “supply surplus line”.
Thyristor (SCR)
A thyristor is used to control power through ON/OFF modulation of commercial power by
controlling the phase angle.
50Hz
or
60Hz
*heaters, etc.
noise
phase angle
Current
Voltage
Thyristor waveform
Thyristor
Unit
*Load
When the thyristor turns ON or OFF, a pulse noise is superimposed on commercial power supply,
and its pulse width is approximately 1
µ
s. Accordingly, thyristor noise can be defined as follows.
• thyristor noise = commercial power pulse noise
Inverter
Commercial power supply is converted to direct current by a rectifier (sometimes the thyristor is
used as the rectifier to stabilize direct current) and then modulated by a switching transistor and
finally converted into alternating current at the desired frequency (from tens to hundreds of Hz) to
drive a motor, for example. If the load to be driven is a fluorescent lamp, the frequency is tens of
kHz. Accordingly, inverter noise can be defined as follows.
Inverter noise = commercial power pulse noise (high density) + variable low
frequency noise
Since the density of pulse noise is high compared to that of a thyristor and in addition, there is
variable frequency noise, it is difficult to consider a countermeasure for inverter noise.
Commercial
power supply
Rectifier output
DC output
Inverter output
Commercial
power supply
Rectifier
DC filter
Inverter
Motor
Principle of inverter
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