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Hey Guys,
This thread is dedicated to discussing the possibility of expanding the Castle Creations HV110 with more FET boards.
I spoke with Castle Creations, as well as a number of electronic engineers about this and have gotten mixed information.
What I am specifically looking at is stacking one or two more FET boards onto one HV110 controller board. You can see the 15 pin connector on the controller baord. That 15 pin connector is a pass-through connector on each of the HV110 FET boards. Each old style HV110 FET board uses 18 FETs per side for a total of 108 FETs on the 3 boards. The newer HV110s use 12 larger FETs per board side for a total of 72 larger FETs total. It would be quite easy to take a spare HV110 and remove one or more FET boards to be paralelled for a 4, 5, or 6 board HV controller. The issue with doing this is the current available to drive more FET gates. To that end, I attempted to take a picture of each side of and old (bad) HV110 controller board to see if it looks like it would be capable of driving more FETs.
Excuse the pic quality. My camera is not very good at close up shots. I can try for some better shots in better light if need be.
Anyway, who has thoughts on this?
Matt
This thread is dedicated to discussing the possibility of expanding the Castle Creations HV110 with more FET boards.
I spoke with Castle Creations, as well as a number of electronic engineers about this and have gotten mixed information.
What I am specifically looking at is stacking one or two more FET boards onto one HV110 controller board. You can see the 15 pin connector on the controller baord. That 15 pin connector is a pass-through connector on each of the HV110 FET boards. Each old style HV110 FET board uses 18 FETs per side for a total of 108 FETs on the 3 boards. The newer HV110s use 12 larger FETs per board side for a total of 72 larger FETs total. It would be quite easy to take a spare HV110 and remove one or more FET boards to be paralelled for a 4, 5, or 6 board HV controller. The issue with doing this is the current available to drive more FET gates. To that end, I attempted to take a picture of each side of and old (bad) HV110 controller board to see if it looks like it would be capable of driving more FETs.
Excuse the pic quality. My camera is not very good at close up shots. I can try for some better shots in better light if need be.
Anyway, who has thoughts on this?
Matt