Electronic – Switch-mode power supply and EMI on input power line filtering

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I'm trying to reduce some switching noise I'm seeing (using LISN & Spectrum Analyzer) on my input power cable. My SMPS operates at 1.2MHz. I have room on the PCB and I'd like to place a SMT common mode choke with a couple of filter capacitors on the input and output of the choke. I was hoping to make a sort of Pi filter.

The device will use 12V from a vehicle cigarette lighter at approximately 75mA. I believe the output resistance of the car battery is relatively low.

I've looked at this Murata Noise Suppression PDF and I see a few examples of possible solutions but no Pi filters.

Any suggestions? Am I going at it all wrong?

Best Answer

A "typical" two-stage power supply EMI filter looks like this:

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The inductors attenuate common-mode noise (and also offer some differential attentuation via their leakage inductances). C1 and C4 shunt differential-mode noise. If there's an 'earth' point available you will also see two more capacitors between CM1 and C4, connected from each rail to the earthing point. These provide more common-mode attenuation.

Sometimes you will see a single stage, sometimes two. As long as your filter is attenuating the necessary noise components and are OK thermally, I don't see a pi filter being 'wrong' necessarily. (For lower frequency conversion, it's easier to get the attenuation via the inductors - just add more turns / more core etc.)

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