Re: A prospective MOSFET driver

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "David Sharpe by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sccr4us-at-erols-dot-com>
> 
> Ken
> I see what you're trying to accomplish.  My only comment is
> when you are biasing Q2 on via the pulse transformer via D1
> with a positive polarity (and of course biasing Q1 off at the
> same time).
> 
> I've always been told to NEVER forward bias a zener diode,
> you will hose its knee characteristics.  Comments from the
> list???
> 
> Regards
> Dave Sharpe, TCBOR
> Chesterfield, VA USA

	Forward biased it will look like any forward-biased diode.  Of course,
you can fry it with too much current but certainly if you don't do that
it won't affect the "normal" characteristics.

Ed