> I'm purposely driving this at ~90% duty cycle, to see how much heat
> would be dissipated in worst-case operation.

I would guess that the duty cycle might be irrelevant. It's the quality of
the transitions that matters. If it's anything but an 'instant' and single=
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L-H
or H-L then there's going to be heat because time is being spent in the
FET's linear region. All these extra components around the FET are an
attempt to minimise undesired transitions without slowing down (ie keep
the slopes as vertical as possible) the required ones

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