> I'm purposely driving this at ~90% duty cycle, to see how much heat would=
 be
> dissipated in worst-case operation.  So there's a ~3ms idle after the 1A =
hold
> phase.

Between that and the 10kHz drive rate are you sure the inductance has lost =
enough stored energy to 'turn off' ???

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