Re:How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data
by tlb on Saturday November 03, 2012 @06:26PM
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Bipolar transistors suffer from the thermal runaway of parallel devices you describe, but not MOSFETs.
MOSFET on resistance increases with temperature, so with multiple devices in parallel the hottest one will flow the least current. This is an important effect even within one device, which is actually an array of thousands of junctions.
MOSFET on resistance increases with temperature, so with multiple devices in parallel the hottest one will flow the least current. This is an important effect even within one device, which is actually an array of thousands of junctions.