AC12 autopilot running higher output linear drive

[CarinaPDX]

@billknny: Sorry I missed your post. Can you provide a link to the H-bridge you used? And add anything that might be helpful for us? Thanks.


Greg

[RaymondR]

Be Mindful that mosfets are voltage controlled devices and that a slowly decaying gate voltage will put them into a highly resistive state for some period of the voltage decay time with consequent heat buildup if there is not some form of current drain for the gate voltage.

[senormechanico]

Originally Posted by lateral

yep, me too. What are we looking for here?
12-30V switchable to 20A?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/30A-DC5V-12...oAAOSwLQpZuDqF

From the link in the Paypal shipping terms:




1. We only ship to Worldwide.


Currently I'm cruising on the moon, so I'm out of luck.

[lateral]

Haha. I hear the moon is good this time of year.
Didn't follow up on this as I didn't buy the type two backup.

I just tried to buy a differential temp controller from China.
Paypal wouldn't accept my demand to pay as NZ isn't on the planet
or is a suspect destination.
Its happened before and you have to get the vendor to cancel and reconfig
acceptable destinations as it can't do retro on a particular destination.

[svninkasi]

Can anyone who has used the h bridge drives show a basic wiring diagram or exlplain how to ? I ordered the ones in the ebay link above.

Thanks in advance !