> I am making a controller for the gate to my property, I am looking at 
> using some IRF540's to drive the motor in maybe a H bridge of half 
> bridge with relay, I am looking for suggestions as to what types of 
> devices can be used to drive the gates of the Mosfets, I will 
> be using a 
> PIC  18F4550 to create the signals and it already has the appropriate 
> PWM and deadband correction etc so I am looking for a 'dumb' solution 
> that provides the appropriate drive to the gate of the 
> mosfet. I think I 
> may also require some way of creating additional voltage for the high 
> side mosfet, this is a bit new to me so I am looking for suggestions!

I sell the IR2110 (http://www.voti.nl/shop/p/IC-IR2110-DIP.html) which
is a MOSFET bridge driver. Start reading the datasheet of this chip!

Wouter van Ooijen

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