I want to place several mosfets in parallel to handle more current, but am confused about the Gate resistors and something refered to as a "balance" resistor. From what I've read, this balance resistor should be between 1.0 and 0.1 OHM and intended to protect the MOSFET's in the array, or "balance" the array for differences in the RDSON values that might cause one (or more) of the FET's to consume more of the load than the others leading to thermal catastrophic destruction of the entire array.
In addition, I'm not sure how to calculate the correct GATE RESISTANCE. I'm driving each gate with op-amps, so I am not clear why I even need a gate ressitor. I'm also not sure how to calculate the BALANCE resistor nor even where to connect this BALANCE resistor parallelly to each fet in the array.
If the RDSON value is, say, 0.036 ohms, then a 10,000 ohm resistor in parallel would maintain 0.036 ohms. However, how the heck do you attach a 10,000ohm resistor in parallel with an RDSON condition? In addition, this BALANCE resistor has always been mentioned in values of 1.0 to 0.1 ohms.
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