From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 21/12/2025 8:24 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:30:50 -0800, john larkin    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d3e6be3#/5d3e6be3/1   
   >>   
   >> I read a bunch of online electronics mags, mostly to stay current on   
   >> new parts. This one is more futurist gee-whiz.   
   >>   
   >> What's cool is that GaN fets are up to around 650 volts now and people   
   >> claim processes that will hit 1200.   
   >>   
   >   
   > For those of us peasants still using 2N3055s, what would such parts   
   > enable one to do?   
      
   John hasn't bothered to tell us that, but GaN fets are fast, and you can   
   use them to run your inverters at several MHz, if you can find ferrites   
   that are resistive enough to tolerate these frequencies.   
      
   He's not fond of wound components that he can't buy of the shelf,   
   perhaps because he'd have to learn about that kind of detail if he   
   wanted to get special purpose parts wound.   
      
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   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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