i apologise if this isnt a straight forward simple question to ask you guys, uve more than once helped me on this project (to build a MOSFET amp for uni) and im more than grateful, but with 20 hrs to go my project supervisor has not ordered let alone recieved the MOSFETS i asked him to get. So a very quick drive to get to the electronics shop before it shuts (via one police road block due to an accident, a flat tyre and getting lost i make it just in time).
Anyway a little bit stressed i go in and ask for any MOSFETs they have, fantastically they have one exicon 10N20 and one 10N20 left which i hope will do the job nicely. i promptly buy them and a suitable heatsink, however theyre in a TO3 packet. not a problem you may think? or maybe it is i dont no.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/19075i0.jpg
Only problem is, after 3 years of electronics degree and it being 100% theory no practical work (yeah stupid i know - big regret chooing this course) im completely thrown by them not being the standard transistor 3 legged packet. After looking at the data sheet from what it looks like i just attatch the source one of the large holes on the side? is this correct? does this then not conduct charge to the heatsink?
i apologise if im being very dumb here but my body is currently being sponsered by nescafe and redbull and i would really apreciate some one just telling me if thats correct or not.
i apologise again for the rant, as u can tell im a bit pissed off considering the rest of my amp has been complete for 2 weeks and have just been awaiting my MOSFETS but assured that they would be here by my irritaing supervisor :
Anyway a little bit stressed i go in and ask for any MOSFETs they have, fantastically they have one exicon 10N20 and one 10N20 left which i hope will do the job nicely. i promptly buy them and a suitable heatsink, however theyre in a TO3 packet. not a problem you may think? or maybe it is i dont no.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/19075i0.jpg
Only problem is, after 3 years of electronics degree and it being 100% theory no practical work (yeah stupid i know - big regret chooing this course) im completely thrown by them not being the standard transistor 3 legged packet. After looking at the data sheet from what it looks like i just attatch the source one of the large holes on the side? is this correct? does this then not conduct charge to the heatsink?
i apologise if im being very dumb here but my body is currently being sponsered by nescafe and redbull and i would really apreciate some one just telling me if thats correct or not.
i apologise again for the rant, as u can tell im a bit pissed off considering the rest of my amp has been complete for 2 weeks and have just been awaiting my MOSFETS but assured that they would be here by my irritaing supervisor :
