Re: Driving those IGBT bricks

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Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation" <dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com> 

For those type bricks, you really can't drive them through a gate
transformer (although you typically *do* use a gate transformer just for the
switching signal)

Here is a drive circuit I'm currently using for these type bricks:
http://users.snip-dot-net/~liche/cm600_gatedrive.pdf

Dan



 > Hi, I have a pretty basic question regarding these large IGBT's. I have
 > several of the CM300DY-24H bricks and would like to know if anyone has
 > successfully driven them with the ucc37321/ucc37322 driver IC's? I know
you
 > can use the IXDN414 drivers, but there appears to be no "enable" on the
 > Non-inverting one...
 >
 > Any sugestions would be great.
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > David Trimmell
 >
 >
 >
 >
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