tt0ny wrote on 2024-05-18, 14:40:
The pwm controller is a uc3842an ic. At the output pin 6 of the ic this oscillation occurs every 1 sec. The signal go to the mosfet. Does it look like a shutdown by a protection circuit?
IMO it looks more like the PWM IC is not getting power and just runs the startup cap dry, then the cycle repeats. It could be due to a problem on secondary side but it's not the only explanation.
First I would check or even replace the electrolytic caps that are in the power supply of the 3842. The schematic photo is not that great, I can't read many of the parts numbers but I think it's C131. Sits on the right of the IC, next to a diode, is connected to pin 7. Which according to annotation is 10-15V, that's too low. There should be 16V and preferably a bit more to make sure the IC turns on and stays on. When the voltage here drops below about 10V the IC will shut down due to undervoltage.
The way this works is initially there is some power supplied to the PWM circuit via that RT191(?) resistor which charges the C131 cap, once it has enough energy stored and the voltage rises above 16V the IC will turn on and should be able to power itself via that extra winding from the main transfomer. If the cap is now degraded it might not have enough capacity to power the chip before it can self-sustain itself. That being said there is a protection circuit, all that stuff to the left of the IC, but the schematic is not readable enough for me to tell how it works. I assume it's opto-coupled to the secondary, and Q130(?) can trigger Q131/Q132 (probably a latch) to pull the pin 7 down to GND and thus stop the PSU. Usually though this type of circuit will not self-reset unless power-cycled. So if the PWM chip seems turning on/off I would consider it a supply problem, not protection kicking in.