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Old 08-08-2013, 06:59 PM   #6216 (permalink)
duncan
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Originally Posted by SEBART PL View Post
Other people experiance - Duncan, Adam who blown up mosfets proved that system is not quick enough when temperature is too high and they haven't got another chance to put bigger heatsink- in my opinion.
My controller was not hot - it blew up on initialization - nothing to do with overheat

The initial blow-up was probably due to dirt or a poor solder joint,
and it happened the first time I switched it on.
This blew one MOSFET, I actually drove the car for about 40Km with the blown MOSFET

The second blow up was due to my not replacing damaged parts
Also I was draining the caps by operating the throttle with the main contactor open every time I shut down
I think this contributed to a failure Paul had in one of his prototypes
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