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Old 04-16-2009, 10:04 AM   #13 (permalink)
MazdaMatt
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dcb... one of the loose design aspects of ReVolt is the seperated power and control. Buy the parts for the control board and make your own cap filter and gate driver board. IGBTs have the huge (in my opinion) advantage of being case-mounted (they have mounting holes and isolated copper bases). So you have a control board, a filter/drive board and a bigass IGBT bolted to a heat sink. IGBTs usually have screw or spade connectors, so you're removing about 100 solder joints and all of the problems with turn-on times.


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