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Possible OI board candidate

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:55 pm
by jon volk
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product ... ack-drive/

Seems like an interesting automotive grade IGBT module available between under 400amps to 950amps. I found some 800a versions on ebay for $375.
Between the documentation on switching characteristics and ability to add a very simplistic water cooling block, it might be nice substantial power option for comparatively low cost, even brand new the 950a version is around $700. Albeit still need to build a gate driver board, but not unreasonable.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/One-New-For-IN ... Sw22ZfgDUl

Re: Possible OI board candidate

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:27 pm
by johu
The 800A version used in Nissan Leaf 3 and BMW i3 inverter.
They run it with 2.x Ohm gate resistors, so pretty substantial drive current (about 7A peak)

Re: Possible OI board candidate

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:31 pm
by jon volk
Good to know. I might fire a lowball offer at one of the eBay units and try my hand at a design. If that materializes it’ll of course be open sourced since I’ll need some folks with actual experience to point out all the dumb mistakes 😅 Looks like there’s a development board out there that can serve as a high level template.