On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Steve Smith wrote:

> The voltage is rather low for IGBT's so the best answer is to look at FET
> bridges. Try Seimens, Semikron, IXYS, Toshiba or IR all offer a range of
> large FET's / IGBT's and drivers to interface to logic. With FET's watch the
> RDSon as this can be the major power loss at these voltage levels. Is it
> possable to increase the DC link voltage and hence decrease the current and
> losses ?

        Well, it's 36, not 26 volts. And no, it can't go higher because
it's for a speed controller for a Solar Splash boat, and the rules limit
us to 36V battery voltage, and 54V peak RMS. No way around it.

        Pierce Nichols