a home-made 0.5 nanosecond LED flash

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a home-made 0.5 nanosecond LED flash

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This diy project looks quite promising.
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Very nice -- thanks for the link!

(I edited the title to fix the units, which previously suggested 0.5 millisecond.)

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rjlittlefield wrote:(I edited the title to fix the units, which previously suggested 0.5 millisecond.)
Thanks. My fingers not always do what the mind tells them to do...
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Post by apt403 »

Nice build! That's quite the enclosure - Printing the diffuser and holding it via magnets is a solid idea.

Edit: Oops.
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Post by mawyatt »

Really nice work and superb enclosure!! Wish I had a 3D printer!!!

BTW the plateau in the gate drive waveform falling edge is due to the "Miller Effect", very common problem driving high speed & current FETs (and bipolar transistors).

A given amount of gate charge must be introduced to turn the device ON, and likewise must be removed to turn the device OFF. Many switching devices have a spec on this.

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