Switching losses in partially soft-switching inverter

Bart,

ok, I see your point concerning the capacitors. If I understand you correctly you’re happy with the turn-off losses while the capacitors are present. The turn-on losses can’t be calculated correctly using the built-in method while the capacitors are present because during turn-on you’re basically short-circuiting the capacitor, resulting in a current peak immediately after turn-on.

You could try the following approach:

Measure the current through the capacitor. Feed the current into the loss table calculation as, say, i_c. (See my first post for manual reference).Copy your lookup table value for the turn-on losses to a new custom lookup table named, say, "custom_turnon"Change the loss calculation method for the turn-on losses to “Formula”.Use Eon=lookup(“custom_turnon”, v, i-i_c, T) as formula.The lookup is now performed using the device current minus the current through the capacitor, which should eliminate the influence of the current peak. Kind regards, Oliver Schwartz