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Visitor II
November 27, 2023
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Finding a Mosfet suitable

  • November 27, 2023
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I am building a high voltage fence controller, it requires a IRF820 Mosfet 500V 4A  N-channel. Apparently they are not manufactured anymore, and I can not find one anywhere, when trying to find out a replacement I am hitting brick walls with most people not knowing.The only Mosfet that keeps coming up is IRF830 500V 4.5A, will this be suitable or will it cause issues? Thank you for reading

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    Best answer by 5608920

    Thank you, I appreciate your help.

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    Super User
    November 27, 2023

    You can still buy IRF820 from other manufacturers:

    https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/vishay-siliconix/IRF820APBF/811790

    But IRF830 should be a suitable replacement as well. It's basically the same except with a lower resistance (and therefor higher continuous current rating).

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    Visitor II
    November 27, 2023

    Thank you, I did see that, but it is only a 2.5A on that IRF820, I was concerned about over loading it.

    Super User
    November 27, 2023

     

    Fair enough. IRF830 seems like the logical replacement choice. Lots of others available if you do a digikey parametric search.