RE: relay and SSR mixer

["Steve Tyng" <stevet-at-stcharlesmd.com>]

Here's some links on using MOSFET's in speed controllers.  The first link discusses 
MOSFET selection for speed controllers (good info on heatsinks also).  The second 
link is a 40amp MOSFET h-bridge design.

http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/SpeedControl/Mosfets.html
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/Robotics/projects/h-bridge/h-bridge.html

Steve


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> Subject: Re: relay and SSR mixer
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> Ted,
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> At 09:44 AM 3/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >With that, I haven't done any research into specs so
> >what's the recommended FETs to handle ~40A if I
> >decided to get sophisticated?
>
> No idea, but the part number will probably have a BMF
> suffix (big mother FET).  That is why I prefer SSRs.
>
> I will look around in some of my students'
> labs to see if they have any old dead
> electronic speed controls (ESCs) for R/C
> cars or trucks that we can dissect.
>
> Joe
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