Bixenon solenoid controller

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litustim

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #1

Hi all,
I am new here merry christmas to everyone,

I bought a chinese projector lenses and they didnt come with solenoid (beam cutout) controller, while playing with it i discovered they work by this principle:
Two wires, aply 12v to them and solenoid moves, reverse polarity and it moves in other direction, i solved that by making H-bridge but here is the problem, solenoid gets hot really fast that way. So i need your help to make a circuit that aplies 12v to solenoid and after 2sec reduces that voltage to lets say 6v, and when i aply low beam it reverses polarity to -12V and after 2sec reduces that voltage to -6V.

Thank you

 

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KeepItSimpleStupid

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #2

See this https://www.electro-tech-online.com/articles/pwm-hit-and-hold-solenoid-driver-using-cd4093.912/ from one of out respected members crutschow

 

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litustim

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #3

Is there a simple simple way without using any ic's

 

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eTech

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• Dec 27, 2020

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KeepItSimpleStupid said:

See this https://www.electro-tech-online.com/articles/pwm-hit-and-hold-solenoid-driver-using-cd4093.912/ from one of out respected members crutschow

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Good for single polarity. But the OP needs a circuit that changes drive polarity.

 

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eTech

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #5

.

 

rjenkinsgb

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #6

A simple method:
Add a resistor in the positive feed to each side of the H bridge to set the holding current, and add an electrolytic cap across the resistor.

Each time it changes over, the capacitor will provide full current for a short time until it charges, then the resistor maintains the low current.
When it changes back, the other side does the same and that side cap discharges via the resistor.

 

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litustim

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #7

Thank you very much

 

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eTech

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• Dec 27, 2020

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Something like this.

 

rjenkinsgb

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• Dec 27, 2020

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I was thinking just something like a 470 or 1000uF cap across the resistor - but that looks to work fine and could be "tuned" for timing with low power presets, rather than changing electrolytics!

 

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litustim

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• Dec 27, 2020

• #10

Is this any good?

 

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KeepItSimpleStupid

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• Dec 27, 2020

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eTech said:

Good for single polarity. But the OP needs a circuit that changes drive polarity.

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So, it's a starting point. The TS already has a H-bridge. So, the enable pin gets a PWM signal.

Then you have to play games with rising and falling edges of "direction" that triggers the circuit and changes the polarity.
Still doable.

I actually made 3 different solenoid drivers.
1. Used a big pass transistor and I had plenty of cooling available. Fiber optic Light shutter.
2. Leedex rotary solenoid. Required pulses to a CW coil and CCW coil. No hold nonsense.
3. Slow turn-on. Shutter for a 1000W light source used 3 min off, a few minutes on duty cycle near a $1000.00 USD 1mm thick glass filter.
I didn't want clunking. A factory upgrade removed manual control of the shutter. I used a velleman PWM controller that had slow-start built in.

 

Last edited: Dec 27, 2020

rjenkinsgb

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• Dec 28, 2020

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litustim said:

Is this any good?

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I can't make that out...

Go back to your first schematic and just replace the centre FET at each side with an electrolytic cap, leaving the resistor etc. as is?
Plus you can remove the stuff that controlled those extra FETs.

 

Danwvw

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• Jan 2, 2021

• #13

I made something to reduce current on my fuel shutoff solenoid valve in my VW it worked great. Just a capacitor and resistor in parallel then together in series with the coil. Homemade Circuit to control an Electric fuel pump with a fuel shutoff solenoid . I used two resistors to increase heat dissipation and 2 capacitors but it could be done with only 1 resistor and 1 capacitor.

 

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litustim

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• Jan 2, 2021

• #14

Thank youu

 

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KeepItSimpleStupid

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• Jan 2, 2021

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yea, kinda did it like Danwvw but I threw in a transistor. I needed a logic level trigger of some sort. i don't quite remember the design, Too long ago.