Castle - Make A Special Edition Monster

[lutach]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

You know, I've been thinking about this --

It wouldn't be too hard to do a 400V MOSFET based 3 phase controller for an EV. And it wouldn't be hard to do a PM motor for it either (expensive magnets though...) Both ST and Infineon have some nice 500V MOSFETs now (that don't have 1000nC charges.)

Need to sleep now, but I'm thinking about it.

What about Ixys for those High Voltage/High Power MOSFETs? I don't know how they compare with ST and Infineon, but most of the products offered by Ixys are on the higher voltage side.

[Pdelcast]

Originally Posted by lutach

What about Ixys for those High Voltage/High Power MOSFETs? I don't know how they compare with ST and Infineon, but most of the products offered by Ixys are on the higher voltage side.

Well, they do have some interesting parts -- but in the last few years they have really fallen behind the "big boys."

Fairchild also has some interesting high voltage parts, but is still a generation behind ST and Infineon in RDSon / die size.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by Pdelcast

Well, they do have some interesting parts -- but in the last few years they have really fallen behind the "big boys."

Fairchild also has some interesting high voltage parts, but is still a generation behind ST and Infineon in RDSon / die size.

The last time I spoke with someone there, they told me they were the leader in High Volt/High Power MOSFETs. I'm pretty sure some of the MOSFETs manufacturers can make some sort of special MOSFET for the demands of us RC guys. Have you also thought about contacting the foundries that makes the silicon's that goes into a MOSFET to actually make one that better RDSon or what ever other special need you might have? A custom Castle MOSFET would be nice, kind of like the Futaba processor seen in their radios .