On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Roman Black wrote:

>Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> >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.
>
>
>But dissipation *per device* does decrease by
>25 times. So you were 1/5 right! ;o)

20% was not a passing score where I come from ;-(

Peter

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