Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> I may be wrong, but I think that what the original poster was asking
>> was: Can he use a Mosfet gate driver chip to drive his LED
>> directly?  In other words, the gate driver chip is being used to
>> drive the load directly without an intervening Mosfet.
>
> If that is the question the OP should check the continuous allowed
> current. My gut feeling is that it is maybe a factor 10 lower than the
> peak current.

And a gate driver will be bigger and cost more than a simple FET driven
directly from a digital output.


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