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Thyristors or MOSFETs?

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greenscumgreenscum 02/22/2020 at 09:021 Comment

10 more minutes of duckduckgo-fu has led me to believe I want to use Thyristor chips instead of MOSFETs. While it is a bummer that these are 100x+ more expensive, it seems to be much more appropriate than running two MOSFETS in reverse bias.

I will research this more tomorrow.

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