Jaguars vs Victors

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Originally Posted by Matt Krass

I'm a fan of this idea, I didn't mean to accidentally kick off a whole new topic in here to that end I've started a new thread here to continue this discussion.

Back on to Victors and Jaguars, I'd really like the opinion of some of the veteran EEs around here on my idea for a test rig I mentioned earlier. Essentially, I'd be alternating between a Jaguar sourcing current to a Victor and the opposite, using something with a sufficiently intelligent brain to control both and perhaps some kind of active load between them. While doing this, we can monitor all of their vitals (mostly temperature of the FETs in question) and we can do some pretty terrible things to them and see how they handle it.

A bank of FETs with beefy heat sinks combined with some smoothing LC networks off each speed controller would make a nice load I think, how about it?

Matt

A consistent load would be essential or it might poison your experiment.

I'm not sure what you mean by the Jaguar sourcing current to a Victor however.

Would it not be easier to just have a consistent load and a consistent source of power as static factors in your test?

I should think you'll need to monitor the load and source of power quite carefully and if that monitor is digital it'll have to have pretty high bandwidth for transients.