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Old 08-17-2011, 04:04 PM   #68 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Josh8loop View Post
I thought you were going to active rectification using low on resistance fets and driving the gate with some type of circuitry?
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I am. I had to have some diodes though. FETs won't work very well on their own. They can act like a diode for start up but they have a limit on the amount of current you can pass through them. I still need some diodes in parallel to the FETs. Also the diodes will serve as a back up if the FETs get fried.
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