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Once installed in a circuit you are unlikely to harm it it is most sensitive while being carried around. The Gate junction (metal oxide) is only a few angstroms thick and a static charge can blow a hole in it. Handling, Wiring and Heatsinking your MOSFET The last circuit shows a DPDT relay arranged as a reversing switch. The coil of that relay will have to be driven by its own logic signal and MOSFET of course. Or, you can use a DPDT relay as a "reversing switch" to reverse the motor within the circuit. You can use an H-bridge, which contains four MOSFETs. What if you want to put a current in the opposite direction through the motor, to make it turn the opposite way? Without the diode, the inductor could generate a high voltage (V = L*di/dt) and burn out the MOSFET. If the MOSFET is suddenly turned off (opened), the (downward) current flowing through the inductor will be able to continue briefly (upward!) through the diode. Recall that once a current is flowing in an inductor, it has an "inertia" and will not easily stop. The diode is important for inductive loads such as motors, relay coils, solenoids, or electromagnets. Note that the logic level applied to the Gate is 0 or +5 volts, but the +V applied to the load can be much higher than that for instance you can control +24v applied to the load.
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The circuit diagram shows how to use the IRFU3708 to control a high-current load, such as a solenoid or a brushed DC motor. The IRFU3708 is nice in that it requires relatively low Gate voltages, and conducts high Drain currents. Often these are called just Drain current, Drain voltage, and Gate voltage.įor many MOSFETs, turning them on fully requires as much as 7 to 12 volts at the Gate - which is more than a standard logic level. Graphs show the dependence of Drain-Source current on Drain-Source voltage for various Gate-Source voltages. The higher the Gate voltage, the lower will be the resistance of the Source-Drain connection.
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MOSFET specifications indicate an "on voltage" applied to the Gate (with respect to Source), required to turn the Source-Drain connection on. We'll use a MOSFET with the Source grounded, the Drain connected (through the load) to a positive supply voltage, and a logic level applied to the Gate, which will turn the Source-Drain connection on/off.
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If you are familiar with bipolar transisitors, an N-channel enhancement-mode MOSFET may be compared to an NPN transistor, where Drain-Source-Gate of the MOSFET are Collector-Emitter-Base of the NPN, respectively. MOSFETs have three terminals, called Drain, Source, and Gate. There is some gate capacitance, typically 5nF, but this won't require much current except at very high switching rates. Further, they are turned on by a "gate voltage" with essentially no current required. MOSFETs in their open state may have a resistance of 10^12 ohms, while in their closed state as little as 0.01 ohm - a remarkable dynamic range. Most practical is to turn on/off a MOSFET. (The coil resistance would have to be 125 ohms or more.) Even 40mA is too much for many chips, however. Conceptually simplest is to use a relay some relays can be closed by 5V at 40mA or less. You need to be able to use the logic-level output voltage (0v or 5v) to turn on/off a device that can handle 100mA of current, or more, up to 30A, depending on the motor being controlled. Logic-level outputs (such as the I/O pins of a Basic STAMP or a PIC chip) have nowhere near enough current capacity to drive a motor directly.