Offsetting arduino output voltage by 600 Volts

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Hello everyone! I'm trying to automate the flipping of voltage (600 V) in a physics apparatus using arduino. For this purpose i have a high voltage H-bridge which works at high voltages. Datasheet: https://www.onsemi.com/pdf/datasheet/nxv65hr82d-d.pdf

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But i seem to have an issue with biasing the gates of transistors of H-bridge since the top 2 transistors Q1 and Q3 (in the above image) do not turn on completely since the voltage biasing needed for top 2 transistors is different from the bottom 2 transisors because the source of different transistors are at different voltages (i have connected arduino ground to the ground of bottom transistors Q2 and Q4) .
Since i have only a single ground in the arduino , i realize i think i need to offset the arduino output from (0V,5V) to (600V,605V) to bias Q1 and Q3 . I have come across some ideas.

  1. Summing amplifier can offset but I haven't found any OPAMPS that have such high saturation voltage of 600V
  2. Gate drivers : I haven't found any integrated module working at such high voltages. Is it safe / recommended to construct one directly using MOSFETS? Could the high current flowing in such a MOSFET to ground damage the arduino?
    Any suggestions/ comments are welcome! Thanks in advance
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This is a design job for a professional EE. Be sure to use optoisolators for the control signals.

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First, you should have an optical isolator to isolate, you, you're Arduino, and the computer if USB is connected, from the lethal voltages!

You can probably make a driver circuit with bipolar transistors. But I'm not going to try to design it... A bipolar transistor turns-on with less than 1V Vbe.

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Right, that's the first step. Next one is to make the transistor switch the HV by a certain amount. More information about the 600V source and its load is required. Is there a 605V line available? Or are 595V also sufficient?

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that is a crazy scary circuit i think that 00 volts dc is way more dangerous than 00vac you need to be extra carefull not to get yourself killed playing with tat one good luck

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600V require quite an airgap - if you have none, things get interesting. Use a suitable optocupler - this is rated for just 600V, but you know where to go from there https://www.vishay.com/docs/83492/vom3052.pdf - if you need or do not need a driver can't be said 'cause there are too few informations given.

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