Various aspects of home brew inverters

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Warpspeed Guru Joined: 09/08/2007 Location: Australia Posts: 4406	Posted: 03:32pm 13 Mar 2019       Poida, Back in the old days when very large IGBTs were pretty slow to turn off, it was quite common to use bipolar gate drivers that used +15v for gate turn on, and drove the gate a fair way negative to turn the IGBT off faster, and prevent spurious turn on from dv/dt in the lower device. https://www.fujielectric.com/products/semiconductor/model/igbt/application/box/doc/pdf/REH984e/REH984e_07.pdf Edited by Warpspeed 2019-03-15 Cheers,  Tony.