Generally you don't want to do that with bipolar junction transisors. Biasing would be tricky, and current hogging would be a distinct possibility. It is however possible with MOSFETS.
Generally you don't want to do that with bipolar junction transisors. Biasing would be tricky, and current hogging would be a distinct possibility. It is however possible with MOSFETS.
i made a search about current hogging, and as far as i understood, this problem can appear if the base's of the trasisitors are not connected together.. but as far as i am going to connect the exact same BJT fully in parallel.. is it still a problem.
Does using a tip122 is a darlington pair with a couple of resistors (used to stabilise the gate input, i guess, the datasheet doesn't say) will allow me to use it?
Experience tells me that you should size a single transistor to handle the load and not mess around with a parallel connection of bipolar transistors. I also question the need for a gain of 1000, typical in a darlington, for driving a motor. You will notice that in audiogurus amplifier there were complementary NPN and PNP transistors with emitter resistors. Are you planning a similar arrangement to drive your motor or did you have something simpler in mind?
Posting a schematic would save a bunch of text messaging back and forth.
Transistors from one manufacturer with the same part number have a difference of current gain of 3.5 times for a 2N3055. It is important to match the gain of paralleled transistors in linear applications.
The saturation voltage of switching transistors have a difference of about the same, 3.5 times.
Darlington transistors also have a wide difference.
Therefore emitter resistors should be used to balance the difference in current gain and saturation voltage to avoid hogging.
Is he the guy who wants to fry a toy car?
He said its motor smelled funny and got very hot when it had a battery with 3 times more voltage than its rating.
3 times the voltage creates 3 times the current, doesn't it?
3V times 3A= 9 times the power isn't it?
Current hogging happens when the transistor with the highest current gain or with the lowest saturation voltage carries most of the load and fails from overload. Hogs push the others away from the food so they can eat the most.
When a transistor gets hot from powering a high load, its gain increases and its saturation voltage drops, so it hogs even more of the load. It is called "thermal runaway".
Mosfets turn off a little when they get hot so they share a load more evenly when paralleled.
i made a search about current hogging, and as far as i understood, this problem can appear if the base's of the trasisitors are not connected together.. but as far as i am going to connect the exact same BJT fully in parallel.. is it still a problem.
In ALL cases you MUST use balancing resistors in the emitters, doesn't matter if they are the same batch or not - you MUST use them!. Calculate their value from the current you're going to pass through them!.
Darlington transistors have a wide variation in current gain and saturation voltage like single transistors.
They also have thermal runaway like single transistors.
They also have an emitter terminal like single transistors.