IRFP240 are they useful for class D amplifier circuit?

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Why wouldn't they be? You won't get (or wouldn't want) as fast a fall time because of the higher source inductance compared to paralleled TO-220. So you pay a penalty in efficiency and you need a longer dead time and/or lower clock frequency (adjustable). But it would *work* and still run cooler than a linear amp.
 
IRFP240 are ancient MOSFET only useful for burning watts in ancient linear amplifier designs. If you have some, they should be easy to sell to people doing class AB or A.

Some of my favourite ones for class D are:

- IRF540Z for 100V (nothing to do with other IRF540 variants)
- IRFB4321 for 150V
- IRFB4227 for 200V

This selection is aimed towards low conduction losses at the expense of higher gate drive requirements, but of course there are "lighter" ones intended for easy drive:

- IRFB4212 (100V)
- IRFB4019 (150V)
- IRFB4020 (200V)

Similar MOSFET from Fairchild are worth mentioning too, since some of them may outperform the ones from IR in certain circumstances (but others are ovbiously inferior):

- FDP3632, FDP3652, FDP3682 (100V)
- FDP2532, FDP2552, FDP2572 (150V)
- FDP2614 (200V)
 
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