XC90 inverter teardown and reverse engineering

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XC90 inverter teardown and reverse engineering

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Bought a slightly crispy Volvo XC90 (2015) inverter from a car breaker. My plan is to replace the controller board.

The inverter is specified for 65kW and also includes the DCDC converter.

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The battery and motor connectors are on the bottom if the inverter sits in the car.

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On the side there is a low voltage multi pin connector, a low power HV connector and a B+ post. think the case is used as the ground connection.

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With the lid off we can see the control board on a bracket and the DCDC converter below.

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There are 3 smale 2 pin connectors for the HV interlock. A short flatflex cable for the DCDC converter. and the big connector for the inverter.

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After removing screws from the DCDC converter side, the case can be split and reveals the inverter.

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The inverter board and the DC Link capacitor come out as one unit. the capacitor is connected with 6 screws.

will start with the inverter connector pinout reverse engineering.

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Got 25 wire of the 40 figured out.

The current sensors, temperature sensors and gate-divers.

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This whas a big job to figure out. Started out with a wrong assumption that the 3 chips where the same. One of them turned out to be a inverter chip instead off a AND gate. This circuit is a hardware dead-time generator.

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This is the output from a simple simulation of the dead-time circuit. Capacitor values are a guess, I couldn't measure them on the PCB.

to do:
-figure out how voltage sense works
-I think there is a cap discharge circuit.
-floating power supply for the gate-drivers
-and some other stuff probably
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Got the DCDC converter working today :D

The DCDC gets a voltage signal from the inverter power board and sends the value on the canbus. the signal is 8.5mV/V and this needs to be above 200V equivalent so 1.7V.

The PSRP_WAKEUP signal needs to be 12V.

On the canbus you need to send on ID 0x101 with 8 bytes 0x00 one time. after this the dcdc will stay on and output 13.8V
Or keep sending this frame with all bytes 0x00 except byte 0 that needs to be 0x01. This one bit will turn the dcdc converter on and off.

On the canbus it sends the HV voltage the 12V voltage. I think there is also a current value in there somewhere and two temp sensors, haven't figured out what the conversion values are to calcuate real temperature.

So now I can design a replacement pcb and get on with the project 8-)
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After a couple of long nights V1 board is done
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:D looks similar :D
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PCB are here!
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After desoldering two DC-DC converter boards for parts and transferring them to the new PCB. The power supply whas tested before I placed the other components. The 5V line whas 1.25V at first power up. The LM2596 I got is the adjustable type and not the fixed 5V one. :?
Added a couple resistors for now. It will be replaced at some point.

The inverter uses a 15V feed so I changed the DC-DC converter from the original design to a more powerful one.
This DC-DC converter is powered from the 12V instead of the 5V like it is in the original design. So I replaced it for a sepic type so it will work from 5V to 32V.

First problem: The capacitors are to high so the pcb dose not fit in the inverter housing. Will find some lower ones.

but first more testing to find out if there are more problems.
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It looks a lot better than the prototype :D
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So this is an OI inverter board that drives the Volvo powerstage? And it also provides power to the gate drivers?
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Yes it drives the power stage. On the power stage board there is a isolated DC-DC converter with multiple outputs to power the IGBT drivers.
From memory it outputs +15V en -5V not a 100% sure.

I need to take the unit apart to reseal it. when i do i will take a picture of the power stage. The only photo I have is in the first post.
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IT RUN'S !!! 8-)

Got the motor running on a 30V 5A power supply. I have the syncofs roughly set.

Changed R46 from 10k to 8k2 to lower the excitation signal. When I put the scope on the sin or cos lines the signal oscillated between -0.5V and 3.5V. I don't think that will be great for the FOC software that the sin and cos signals are clipping the ADC. After the resistor change the voltage stayed between 0.3 and 3.0V, much better.
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The first connections I tried for the resolver did generated a good looking signal on the plot. But could not spin the motor with id current. After swapping the sin connections on the motor it spins with a couple of amperes.

The temperature sensors on the motor measure 104 ohm at 7°C. So maybe a pt100. Will check by running some hot water through the motor and checking the resistance.

The same thing for the inverter. Got to figure out what kind of temperature sensors are in there. Tried all the settings in the web interface but nothing made sense.
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