{"id":19787,"date":"2024-02-27T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19787"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T04:06:52","slug":"2024-02-27-mosfet-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=19787","title":{"rendered":"2024-02-27 MOSFET Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The gate driver circuit shown in the screenshot uses BC547s, which are limited to less than 200 mA current.\u00a0 Instead, if the two transistors were BC337 or PN2222A which can easily handle over 500 mA, they could charge and discharge the gate faster, and thus reduce the dissipation in the MOSFET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot_20240227_192952_youtube2311440145286533237-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot_20240227_192952_youtube2311440145286533237-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/screenshot_20240227_192952_youtube2311440145286533237.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gate driver circuit shown in the screenshot uses BC547s, which are limited to less than 200 mA current.\u00a0 Instead, if the two transistors were BC337 or PN2222A which can easily handle over 500 mA, they could charge and discharge the gate faster, and thus reduce the dissipation in the MOSFET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,323,24,81,3238,296,80,1284],"tags":[3240,3239,48],"class_list":["post-19787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronic-components","category-electronic-design","category-electronics-books-documents-literature","category-field-effect-transistors-fets","category-mosfets","category-schematics","category-transistors","category-video-books-documents-literature","tag-circuit","tag-gate-drive","tag-mosfet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19788,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions\/19788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}