Inductance of wirewound power resistors

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Working on a test jig to take a 400V GaN power device
to the cyclotron for single event survivability and spurious
drain current testing. This voltage swing needs to be fully
exercised, but my 'scope probes say 300V, yadda yadda.

Between a resistor divider and a pulse transformer, the
divider looks cleaner if a bit slower. Transformer has the
nice property of being a non-dissipative load but what
we specifically want, may be longer lead time than
remains to the trip.

"On" power level says I need 150W resistors and some
values plus high pulsed duty will put me in wirewound.
Thick film values are very limited at this power level.
Looking specifically at TE Connectivity (looks like used
to be Ohmite?) FSC150 range.

My interest in waveform fidelity wants board C and
resistor L minimized. TE Connectivity datasheet says
"low inductance" but no quantitative info found in
the 4 pages of Google hits from "HSC150" "inductance"
"resistor". Only thing I saw was one thesis where the
MOSFET load was ringing pretty badly, and wirewound
resistors were used.

Couldn't find anything quantitative on TE Connectivity
(was Tyco Electronics) web site.

What I'm looking for, is any kind of reasonable rough
inductance value for a 1Kohm 150W like this guy (one
of the other divider values):

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/te-connectivity-passive-product/HSC1003K9J/5587209

Anybody ever measure, or see a number for this
kind of wirewound?


 

For high-power dissipation, consider using multiple lower-wattage resistors in parallel. This can reduce the inductance and improve thermal management.
 

Anybody ever measure, or see a number for this
kind of wirewound?
I can´t give values for the mentioned resistor.

But years ago I measured a 5W resitor in ceramics ... those 20 x 5 x 5 mm THM ones with leads on both ends.
If I remember right it was a 47 Ohms one ... but at 1MHz they were far from 47 Ohms.

Klaus
 

With 1k and 100ns step response, HOW would one define low ESL? by HF BW?
ESL= Tau*R = 1e-7 * 1e3 = 1e-4 H = 100 uH

YOu measure it with a tuning cap. Winding methods and materials for low R and high R vary a lot.

 

Arcol is specifying detailed inductance values. The have low inductance and standard types.
 

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Good find Frank. .My estimate of 100 uH wasn't far off but these are the std R's not the low ESL

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Low ESL concrete resistors are custom.

A better choice is the ceramic power resistors

Tubular Ceramic Resistors​


Non-inductive, high voltage, high power tubular resistors are available in a wide range of standard sizes, ceramic materials terminations and mounting hardware. Bulk construction advantageously produces an inherently non-inductive resistor; and it allows energy and power to be uniformly distributed through the entire ceramic resistor body – there is no film or wire to fail.
 
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Rereading post #1, I want to contradict the statement about thick film resistors. You get planar thick film resistors with kV voltage and multi kW pulse power rating, e.g. from Vishay or TE.
 

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