Let's say i have a triac connected on a zero crossing triac driver. The sine wave of the triac is at 90 degrees. I trigger the triac driver with a signal from 95 degrees to 100 degrees and then remove the trigger signal. Will the triac driver activate the triac at 181 degrees? Or, will i need to keep the trigger signal going to the triac driver active until 181 degrees for the triac driver to activate the triac?
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Void
It needs to be there when line crosses zero (at 0deg, 180deg).
Slightly before and for a time afterward. The triac has to conduct a certain amount of current in order to stay on absent gate current.
Therefore i can assume that the second example i gave is actually what needs to take place ("i need to keep the trigger signal going to the triac driver active until 181 degrees for the triac driver to activate the triac") and not the first one. Am i correct on that?
Typically, I think, a zero-crossing triac driver is for simple on-off stuff.
So, maybe you're asking:
if the input got pulsed, say at line peak (90deg or 270deg), would the driver side sit "armed", as a latch, primed, ready for zero-cross, where it would turn the triac on? Is that it?
I'm not sure the form of the zero-crossing circuitry (internal). I haven't used one where half-cycles was an issue.
retro,
I am aware.
The OP is asking about zero-crossing triac drivers, though his objective isn't transparent (no offence, void).
As far as SSRs go, I don't know about "most", but "most" available from surplus concerns are zero-cross.
If I wanted to get tricky and trigger only one alternation or something, I'd go full out with a random-type triac driver, that's what they're for.
If all I care about is turning a lamp on/off, it's not important if I miss an alternation before it goes on or if it stays on an alternation after I disable the driver's (DC) input.
Anyway, should a zero-crossing driver get an input tick (indeterminate) in the middle of one alternation, I don't know to a certitude whether the output latches and consequently triggers the triac that it's responsible for, at zero-cross, in the following alternation.
I think that there would be a pulse-width (noise filtering) minimum for that just the same.
In any event, given a zero-cross triac driver, I would plan to have a solid input enable in anticipation of that zero-cross and hold it there till I required it to go off.
I haven't seen any zero-crossing triac drivers used in conjunction with a zero-cross detector, as in a random trigger, AC phase control situation, as the timing reference isn't required.
Pancace that:
"So, maybe you're asking:
if the input got pulsed, say at line peak (90deg or 270deg), would the driver side sit "armed", as a latch, primed, ready for zero-cross, where it would turn the triac on? Is that it?"
is exactly what i was asking about