| Title |
The Development of Surge Protection Circuit Applying SCR for Improving Reliability |
| Authors |
Up Namkoong ; Kwang-Uk Chu |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2012.26.8.096 |
| Keywords |
Lightning Surge ; Metal-oxide Varistor ; Silicon Control Rectifier ; Surge Protective Device |
| Abstract |
A surge protection device of the metal oxide varistor(MOV) has been commonly used for preventing electrical damage in many electronic equipments. The MOV has a property that leakage current is increased and might be permanently damaged when it is exposed continuously to the electrical stresses such as lightening surges. In this paper, we propose a novel surge protection circuit adopting a silicon controlled rectifier(SCR) in the traditional protection circuits using the MOV device simultaneously. When lightning surges are injected to the proposed circuit, the MOV lets the surge pulses bypassing through the ground at first up to the level that SCR begins to operate. Above the threshold level of turning on the SCR, the SCR operates bypasses large surge currents to the ground. Proposed circuit was verified with a leakage current experiment and PSpice circuit simulations under the repeated surge injection environment. |