Roman wrote:
>Yep! They're designed for driving inductive loads
>and the diodes match the FETs for performance.
>The diodes are generally schottky or fast recovery
>and have low on drop, 0.2v at medium currents is
>common. But as someone said, often it's more
>efficient to turn the FET on for flyback and let
>the FET handle the reverse electrons.


Thanks to everyone who responded to the IRF540 question.

Very interesting about the heat generation issue. Now
I am wondering whether I can reduce heat buildup in an
L293 h-bridge chip using similar fiddling. Next step,
on to the smoke tests.

thanks,
- dan michaels
www.oricomtech.com
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