Why not integrate Jaguars with Diodes?

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

My apologies, I must have misunderstood your earlier post. Can you sketch a schematic of what you are suggesting?

The confident tone led me to believe you had a somewhat detailed suggestion in mind with a compelling cost/benefit ratio.

Not now I can't. I am sitting in a McDonalds in downtown Manhattan eating my dinner. If I have time this weekend I'll draw and test what I have in mind (it's my dime right....if I nuke my MOSFETs you've got nothing to loose....in the meantime I'll spare you the lengthy written descripition).

That being said, the other way to look at the cost/benefit ratio of this particular issue is that you don't have to make all the Jaguars the same. You could make room in the housing (or use room in the existing housing) and essentially make an additional module or a different PCB for the reverse polarity protected version.

Then, if someone desires, they could pay extra for this feature without penalizing all the teams more confident they'll avoid this pitfall.

I really don't see the harm in that idea do you?