Re: "Flyback" Driver - Why are my MOSFETS hot? (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:20:22 +0200
From: gtyler <gtyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: "Flyback" Driver - Why are my MOSFETS hot? (fwd)

Are you driving the gates of the fets with 5V? If you are that is too
low, you will not turn them fully on and they will get hot. There could
be other factors as well.

George Tyler

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Subject: "Flyback" Driver - Why are my MOSFETS hot? (fwd)


> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:28:13 +0930
> From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: "Flyback" Driver - Why are my MOSFETS hot?
>
> Hi All
>
> I have a 555 based oscillator running at 20kHz driving a totem pole
arrangement
> in turn driving the gates of five IRF620s in parallel.  This is
driving my
> "flyback" transformer.
>
> Supply voltage to the MOSFETs is 24V (control is 5V).
>
> Inductance of transformer primary is 200uH.
>
> That gives a reactance of about 25 Ohms.
>
> Current measured at around 1A - everything adds up so far.
>
> The MOSFETs have an Rdson of 0.8 Ohms.  Assuming (!) that each MOSFET
is taking
> one-fifth of the current, we should be dissipating (1/5)^2 . 0.8 =
32mW.
>
> Why are the (small) heatsinks getting so hot?  (Please note that it's
mid-winter
> here and the ambient temperature is below twenty degrees Celcius/sixty
something
> of your Earth Farenheits.)
>
> I tried disconnecting my snubber (which was getting really hot) and it
didn't
> seem to make any difference.  Snubber is  Rsnub=2.7k Ohms in parallel
with
> Csnub=11nF, all in series with MUR4100.
>
> I know I'm missing something fundamental here - having a head full of
cold
> doesn't help.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
> --
> Matthew Smith
> Kadina Business Consultancy
> South Australia
>
>
>