Motors & Drives Information

Fairchild Semiconductor International (NYSE: FCS) announces the FPAL15SH60, a Smart Power Module (SPM) designed for 100V-253VAC, three-phase inverter drives for low-power (0.75kW) applications, such as washing machine drive systems.

The FPAL15SH60 offers extremely user-friendly design-in capability and assembly. Housed in a fully isolated 55mm x 57mm (2.165in x 2.244in) package with a rated isolation voltage of 2500V, the new SPM is compact, cost-effective and highly reliable. The module's high-speed built-in HVIC eliminates the need for opto-couplers or a negative bias and allows the IGBTs to be driven by a single bias supply, significantly simplifying the product's design and therefore reducing cost. In addition, the SPM's advanced current-sensing IGBT chips provide short-circuit current detection and protection.

Features included in the FPAL15SH60 are six IGBTs and anti-parallel diodes, high-speed control ICs and a thermistor for temperature sensing. Additional product benefits are very low leakage current and high isolation rating due to the use of ceramic substrate, and adjustable current protection levels by varying series resistor values with sense-IGBTs. Appliance applications are those requiring high switching frequency capability of around 20kHz. The continuous rms current rating for the SPM is 5.0A with a one minute rms current rating of 7.5A (150%).

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