Re: New SSTC Design Topology

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

I'm not familiar with that book, but it is similar to what you describe.

The Captain



 > >The beauty of this design is that the gates are not turned on at the same
 > >time.  The first FET turns on, then the second FET turns on the third,
and
 > >so forth.
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 > Is that the circuit that appears in The Art Of Electronics (second
edition,
 > page 372)? If you don't have the book I'll try to describe it: A series
 > string of MOSFETS where the drive signal is fed only to the gate of the
 > bottom one, and the gates of all the others connect to a series string of
 > resistors (each with shunt capacitor) that runs between the drain of the
 > top MOSFET and the source of the bottom one. Each MOSFET has a gate-source
 > protection diode.
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 > Steve C.
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