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VN5T016AH-E low inductance/resistance shorts

liampwll
Associate III

Does the VN5T016AH-E handle short circuits with extremely low inductance/resistance without damage to the device? The datasheet states that there is a 53us turn-off delay which would result in 4J of energy in the FET in the case of a dead short with no input or output inductance ((36V)^2/16mohm*53us), which seems like it would completely destroy the device. We have enough polymer caps on our boards that we could realistically put a few joules in to the FET, so we'd like to know if we need to add some inductance.

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