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FIGURE 10. Additional Voltage Clamping Circuits for V
RAIL(peak)
> 80V/95V (LM3464A)
Applications With High Rail Voltage
Since the LM3464A is rated to 95V supply voltage, applying
a voltage to any pin of the device exceeding the absolute rated
voltage could damage the device permanently. For the appli-
cations that the rail voltage could increase to exceed 95V,
external voltage clamping circuit must be added to the Vin and
DRx pins to avoid system breakdown. Figure 13 shows a typ-
ical application circuit with 150V peak rail voltage.
In figure 13, Z
1
, Z
2
, Z
3
, Z
4
and Z
IN
are zener diodes for limiting
voltages at the DRx and VIN pins of the LM3464A. The re-
verse voltage of the selected zener diodes must not exceed
the rated voltage of the corresponding pin. For the LM3464A
evaluation board, the reverse voltage of the additional zener
diodes must not exceed 95V. The resistors R
DR1
, R
DR2
,
R
DR3
, R
DR4
and R
IN
are resistors for absorbing the voltage
difference across the DRx pins and V
RAIL
.
Calculating the Values of Z
x
and R
DRx
:
Since the current being passed through the zener diodes are
derived by the resistance of R
DRx
, the value of the R
DRx
must
be calculated properly according to the reverse current of the
zener diode and input current of the DRx pins of the LM3464A
avoid unnecessary power dissipations. For instant, a 500mW/
75V zener diode CMHZ5267B (Central Semiconductor) is
used to clamp the DRx pins at 75V. Because the reverse cur-
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