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[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Aerosound

and I came up with the possibility of maybe the gate, source, or drain inside the MOSFETs coming out of alignment, which would mess up the circuit and cause an overheat.

Considering that these sections of the MOSFET are one solid piece, that's impossible.

To make the Gate, Source and Drain of a FET, one takes a solid chunk of Silicon, and adds small amounts of special impurities by painting it on to the outside, then baking in an oven to get the 'paint' to soak into the silicon.

While the actual process is quite a bit more complex, this explanation will give you the right idea as to how it is done.

[J.Warsoff]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Considering that these sections of the MOSFET are one solid piece, that's impossible.

To make the Gate, Source and Drain of a FET, one takes a solid chunk of Silicon, and adds small amounts of special impurities by painting it on to the outside, then baking in an oven to get the 'paint' to soak into the silicon.

While the actual process is quite a bit more complex, this explanation will give you the right idea as to how it is done.

Oh well thanks Don. Looks like I misunderstood you once again when you explained it to me. woops!


And Tristen, I haven't been able to compare the two different models or figure out the major difference, so that's a question I can't honestly give a good answer to. But I do know that we are switching to tan, since we have never had a problem with them.

[Bandgeek80001]

We had one of ours do that, too... We chalked it up to metal shards from some last-minute hole-drilling...

[JByrd]

You know we had that exact same problem with a victor except since a victor is open at that point it broke off and launched halfway across the room