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

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 07:35:46 +0930
From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: "Flyback" Driver - Why are my MOSFETS hot? (fwd)

George Tyler wrote:
> 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.

Matthew replies:

Guilty as charged!  I'll put some extra "juice" onto the gate-drive totem-pole
and report back.

Spot the guy who's spent too long working with logic levels ;-)

Cheers

M

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Matthew Smith
Kadina Business Consultancy
South Australia