Notification 611 - RF5 is too high

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TopSwitch resistor RF5 is too high. High value of resistor can cause start up problems.

§        Reduce resistor to below 15 ohms.

§        Use an additional 0.1 μF bypass capacitor in parallel and check that start-up timing is satisfactory. Values above 100 ohms are NOT recommended.

 

 

RF5 can be increased beyond 15Ω up to a maximum value of 100Ω to eliminate the effect of auto-restart capacitor CF3 from the control loop but an additional bypass capacitor (typically 0.1 μF) must then be added as shown below. This compensation method is good for power supplies with sophisticated, secondary side compensation schemes that do not require the dominant pole caused by auto-restart capacitor C5. R3 values beyond 100Ω are not recommended because auto-restart timing intervals will decrease and auto-restart frequency will increase significantly.