Tuesday, February 5, 2008

HHmm BB-Q...

Well, after many hours of soldering parts, more scrouging and mounting parts I was ready to do my test with 90% of this controller together, and I ended up blowing the single MOSFET I was using as my test unit. Well, I actually think I killed it when I went to resolder the wires on it and took way too long and burnt it. So when I went to test run, it worked for all of 1 sec, they popped and smelled like burning chips. The controller circuit itself is just fine, I just need to make my actual MOSFET system so it can the load. I also need some larger diodes for the final thing, but the ones I have now work up to 55 volts. I will have to take a pic of the whole setup before I delve into another week of creating the MOSFET heatsink system. That, and I still need to get the current limiting a little more sophisticated than a fuse.......

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