Magnatec's new line - ALFET

It seems amusing that the photos of the Semelab Mosfet packages on the Magnatec websitehave the part number used by Class D
Class-D Design Ltd.
According to Semelab these parts are 8 amps per die.
Class D rate their mosfets at 12A per die!🙄
As far as I know, these parts are not exactly the same as the Magnatec BUZ / Exicon Mosfets. They have made some minor changes to the die construction.
I would be very interested to know if anyone has managed to construct a high power amplifier, Say 500w RMS 4 Ohm +, using multiple semelab lateral mosfet output stages, that was reliable, and did not suffer from component failure.🙂
 
I must say that my first thought seeing site and picture of devices was "cheap looks, and what a strange name"

Oh btw, I just recently did take a look at some BUZ devices, and I thought that 30 EUR was way too expencive
 
Interesting choice for a name. From Wikipedia:

An alfet (Old English: ālfæt, "fire vat") was an ancient cauldron filled with boiling water, into which an accused person was to plunge his arm up to his elbow. If hurt, he was held guilty; if not, acquitted.
 
For those mislead by this thread:

The linked datasheet features performance graphs (now) and it looks IMO very reasonable.

Btw.: The Exicon MOSFETs were always from the same source as the BUZ9 and AlFETs (At least the Silicon always came from Semefab).
 
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