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ACST2 Series
New high immunity, robust 800 Volt alternative switches

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The home appliance industry is shifting towards electronic control on a worldwide basis. Together with this trend, electronics can now cope with AC mains constraints where high voltage robustness and transient voltage compatibility are the key challenges.
ST has designed the ACS™ and ACTS devices to control the numerous AC loads necessary for the appliance process. These AC switches meet the requirements of reliability, compactness and mass production capability.

ACST2 Series

The new ACST2 series belongs to the AC power switch family built around the ASD technology. These high performance devices are adapted to home appliances or industrial systems and drive loads up to 2 A such as pumps, fans or solenoids. ACST2 embeds a Triac structure with a high voltage clamping device to absorb the inductive turn-off energy. Thanks to its crowbar auto-protection technology it withstands line transients such as those described in the IEC 61000-4-5 standards. This component needs a low gate current to be activated (IGT < 10 mA) while providing a high electrical noise immunity such as those described in the IEC 61000-4-4 standards.


Key Markets And Applications


AC ON/OFF static switching in appliances and industrial control systems
Drive of low power highly resistive or inductive loads like solenoids, pumps, fans and micro-motors

ACST2 Series
ACST2 typical application diagram

Features And Benefits

Overvoltage crowbar technology
Needs no external overvoltage protection
800 V to avoid premature firing
Best in class trade-off: static dV/dt > 500 V/μs: IGT < 10 mA
IH < 10 mA for inductive load compatibility
Standards approval: immunity and robustness designed for IEC 61000-4-x and IEC 60335-1
Interfaces directly through simple resistor with the microcontroller
Reduces component count


Main Characteristics



ACST2-8SFP
ACST2-8SB
IT(RMS)
2 A
VRRM / VDRM
800 V
IGT max
10 mA
(dl/dt)c @ Tj = 125 °C
0.5 A / ms
dV/dt @ Tj = 125 °C
500 V / μs
Package
220FPAB
DPAK