Peter L. Peres wrote...

>On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
>>As I said in a previous posting, you can down the heating and use tiny
>>devices (even SMD) by putting many (not two) in parallel. For one offs
>>like yours, this is very easy. Order 10 fets and connect them 5+5 in
>>parallel. You can use TO220 cases with vertical mount (not laying down) so
>>they align. The dissipation goes way down very fast. P=I^2*R as you know,
>>25 times in the case of 5+5. For example there are RC power controllers
>
>My turn to write bs. The dissipation decreases only 5 times not 25 as I
>wrote, using 10 devices instead of 2.

Yes, but the power dissipation per device does indeed go down by
a factor of 25.  And that's what matters most, eh?

DD

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