Hello Paul, Eric, Andy,

AC coupling with a large C will not solve the problem.
At "key up" one of the driver outputs will remain high thus the gate of theFET connected to that output will remain high (and the FET conducting) during a time depending on  RC constant of the driver / gate network. For 0.22uF and 4.7kOhm the RC constant is 1 millisecond. So for a driver running on 12V iit will take about that time for the gate voltage to drop below the treshold. During that 1ms the FET is more or less shortcircuiting the powersupply. One of them will die sooner ot later ;-)

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T
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Verzonden: zondag 24 februari 2019 15:03
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Onderwerp: Re: LF: Re: Class D current spikes

I will be watching this discussion closely. Mine is a W1VD kilowatt
deck:

http://w1vd.com/137-500-KWRev3.0.pdf

It has blown FETs several times. The problem always occurs at the
end of the RF envelope. To further confuse this issue, I have lost
only one FET while running with my U3S exciter in hundreds of hours
of operation. I have lost many FETs when driving it with HF
transceiver and down converter. I have also lost FETs driving it
with a phasing exciter. It seems using it with either of the latter
exciters almost guarantees one or more dead FETs within a few
minutes. I was running at about 300 watts output during all of these
failures.

73,
Paul


On 2/24/19 8:42 AM, Eric NO3M wrote:
> The driver and FET gates in mine are AC coupled (0.22u, SB560
> schottky shunt, 10 ohm series, 4.7k shunt) and the problem still
> exists.  Apparently same thing Paul N1BUG was having problems with.
> The spike on the end of the RF envelope is what seems most ominous
> and results in my 48v switcher going into fault mode.