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Capacitor at The AUX

tensaisakuragi06
Associate III

Hi, i design a SPMS with VIPER013HS and in the design schematic, i dont know the purpose of the capacitor in attached picture. Also in design, there is no capacitor value mentioned for this capacitor.capacitor.png

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Peter BENSCH
ST Employee

It's a so-called Y-capacitors for common mode rejection and EMI filtering. Depending on the design of the transformer, this may not be necessary, e.g. with grounded metal foil between the primary and secondary winding.

Does it answer your question?

Regards
/Peter

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Peter BENSCH
ST Employee

It's a so-called Y-capacitors for common mode rejection and EMI filtering. Depending on the design of the transformer, this may not be necessary, e.g. with grounded metal foil between the primary and secondary winding.

Does it answer your question?

Regards
/Peter

In order to give better visibility on the answered topics, please click on Accept as Solution on the reply which solved your issue or answered your question.
tensaisakuragi06
Associate III

It satisfies my curiosity. Thank you.