Technical Info

Information on Electronic Unit 101N0500

AC Voltage in Combination with 24V DC Power Supply Voltage

Danfoss would like to inform you about
the behaviour of the AC/DC electronic unit
when applying DC and AC voltage to the
unit at the same time. The following applies
only to 24V DC powered systems. 12V DC
systems will never cause the behaviour as
described below.
As stated in the instruction sheet of the
101N0500 electronic unit, the AC voltage
will always have priority over the DC
voltage. This is, however, not correct in all
situations. In cases where AC voltage and
DC voltage above 27V DC are applied to the
controller, the DC power supply will take
over the supply.
The speed of the BD compressor is pro-
portional with the voltage or the compressor
motor. The compressor motor is designed
to run between 2000 and 3500 rpm.
In order to decrease power leakage, the
current to the compressor is reduced
by increasing the voltage applied to the
compressor motor. For this purpose, there is
a boost converter in the electronic unit that
is able to step up the applied voltage to a
voltage between 27 and 45V DC.
That means if 2000 rpm is requested, the
voltage out of the boost converter is 27V DC
and if 3500 rpm is requested, the voltage out
of the boost converter is 45V DC.
The internal AC/DC converter will always de-
liver 27V DC to the boost converter for the
motor voltage. We have chosen this voltage
as it is the voltage which is requested for
running the compressor with the minimum
speed of 2000 rpm. The boost converter can
only step the voltage up, but not down.
When a voltage of 27V DC is applied on the
input of the boost converter, we will have
an amplification of 1:1. If we had chosen to
set this voltage from the AC/DC converter
higher we would no longer have been able
to run the compressor with the minimum
speed of 2000 rpm and that would have de-
creased the functionality of the compres-
sor.
This means for our customers that when
applying higher voltage than 27V DC to the
DC input of the controller the voltage from
the DC will be higher than the output from
the internal AC/DC converter. Consequent-
ly, the DC input will be recognized as active
and therefore the controller will draw the
power from the DC power source.
We do not see this behaviour as something
that could cause problems in an applica-
tion.

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DEHC.EN.100.A1.02/520N0636 Produced by Danfoss Compressors, DEHC6093, 04.2008