Hello everybody, after suffering today from a lack of power MOSFETs and having to cancel a nice repair
, I've decided to stock on some. Unfortunately fleabay is ripe with fakes and I've even got a bad order from a mega-distributor (to their total forgiveness they looked into the issue, thanked me and refunded immediately).
Anyways, if some kind of puny component may cause some pain, one blown power MOSFET or IGBT can cause major pain/disaster, and kill some unobtanium parts. It could even be an unlucky lot original, not necessarily a fake.
So I need a way or device to test these components close to their nominal parameters, that means lots of volts (up to 500V ) and amps (up to 30A). In the data sheets I can see that the test circuit for non-inductive loads is pretty simple, just some resistive load and pulses to the gate. It's not a difficult thing to do, except for the f--ing high voltages and currents
!!!
So my question is: is there some kind of component tester for these things that doesn't cost as much as a car, or some kind of an working/proved project ?
Any advice is most welcome.
Cheers,
DC1MC