We had one guy here in town who was parked near a supermarket and wanted to go on a jog. A buck cornered him and then went into full attack mode. AFAIR the guy ended in emergency surgery.
As discussed, exact value may not be critical. But one thing that has not been expressed is the issue of multiple MOSFETs in parallel, as is common in high current PWM DC motor drives as used in many EVs. The turn-on point may differ among devices, from normal variation and temperature effects. In order to reduce current hogging by one or two devices, the gate resistor
allows the voltage output of the gate driver to switch quickly, while the individual MOSFETs can reach the Miller plateau at nearly the same time.
Not if they share the same drain contact. If one parallel fet is enhanced sufficiently to start the fall in drain voltage of all of them, then the unenhanced parts will not tend to turn on until the drain transition is completed, due to individual miller charge transfer.
That explains the No Does pills the truckers take.
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