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ragnar
Fri Jun 30 2006, 02:41AM
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The fuzzy wavey noise disappears when I grab just about any component, including the scope's ground lead, so we'll see what happens.
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Steve Ward
Fri Jun 30 2006, 04:47AM
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You are coupling noise through the drains of each fet to the heatsink. You should find out how to remedy this before you cause your gate drivers to overheat! This is the common mode noise Conner mentioned. Luckily, my big IGBT brick drives dont seem to suffer from this despite not even considering the problem when i designed them.


If those are real you have serous problems


Not really... high dissipation is to be expected at 2.4mhz with common fets. If he is careful about zero current switching with his load, then he should be fine.
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Steve Conner
Fri Jun 30 2006, 09:47AM
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That fuzzy ringy stuff looks like some sort of parasitic oscillation. If it were just ringing excited by the gate drive edges, it would have a decaying envelope. Anyway the acid test is when you connect those FETs to some power and see if the waveforms still look nice when everything is di/dt'ing and dv/dt'ing all over the place like crazy.

Good luck trying to get a low enough inductance layout to work at 2MHz, with your FETs in a row tongue
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ragnar
Fri Jun 30 2006, 11:29AM
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heheh, that wasn't just for photo mockup, but to test the drivers all at once (and consider switching a few volts through a resistor)... =P

I should have posted the pic of solid aluminium stock I'm using for separate heatsinks...

..hehe, now, how to have a low-inductance layout, but not have the plates parallel next to each other, forming an air capacitor... ^^
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