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11/29/06 03:44
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#128640 - Hhm, but this paralleling is widely used!
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Erik said:
To rely on paralelling pins for more current it would require that the Vce(sat) for all transistors was identical, just look at a datasheet for any transistor to see they are not. The net result (typically) will be that the transistor with the lowest Vce(sat) will handle most of the current and eventually give up the ghost and then another will be the one with the lowest ... and then another.....

Paralleling of transistors in this way is widely used, though!
Don't forget, that Uce(sat) is not constant, but depends on actual collector emitter current, in a way, that Uce(sat) increases with increasing collector emitter current. This tendency prevents, that only one transistor will carry the whole current and makes, that the current more or else evenly distributes over the paralleled transistors.

If all these transistors are not sitting on the same die, it can be helpful sometimes, to enhance this distributing by artificially increasing the collector emitter path resistance of each transistor, by simply inserting a small resistance at each collector before feeding them together. This, to manage manufacturing tolerances.

The same is true for NPN, PNP, NMOS and PMOS transistors.

Kai

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Unknown pinouts application            01/01/70 00:00      
   who can tell            01/01/70 00:00      
      i did wonder why the ports were paralleled            01/01/70 00:00      
         Serial Converter            01/01/70 00:00      
         more information            01/01/70 00:00      
            To...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Yes but            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Hmm...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     What tells the scope?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Nothing            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Level?            01/01/70 00:00      
                              What will happen            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Improper load?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Jez see this            01/01/70 00:00      
      Hhm, but this paralleling is widely used!            01/01/70 00:00      
         Parallel MOS transistors are fine            01/01/70 00:00      
            Perfectly safe?            01/01/70 00:00      
               Reasonably safe            01/01/70 00:00      
   What is this circuit intended to do, Ralph?            01/01/70 00:00      
      What's it to do            01/01/70 00:00      
      What it does            01/01/70 00:00      
   Just out of interest lynn,            01/01/70 00:00      
      FPGA conversion cost            01/01/70 00:00      

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