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I am going to design the circuit using the resonance converter for now. The only concern that I have is that resonance converters are known to lose efficiency outside of specific input ranges. However the circuit topology I am choosing to use should be capable of maintaining high efficiency at larger input ranges.
ZVS Converter Spice Simulation
I am using LTSpice to simulate the converter with a python library that interfaces with it.
The trickiest part of setting up the simulation is setting duty cycles for the switches since the cycles are somewhat dependent on factors within the converter. However there are only two cycles which are controlled by the user. These are the first two of the six cycles, after which the switches are not touched and all switching occurs in the diodes. The time for the subsequent cycles must be determined with spice. However, there will also be some control circuitry used to optimize the timing of this cycle.
Engineering Diary
Check out Dr. Hanson's paper on a ZVS resonance converter design he made:
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