Dual fast-recovery rectifier for 100 kHz+ PFC and flyback stages
Conduction loss and thermal budget in TO-220
Each diode delivers 10 A average with a forward voltage of 1.1 V maximum at 8 A. In a typical 1 kW PFC stage running two diodes in parallel through the common-cathode pair, the per-diode conduction loss at 5 A is roughly 5.5 W — the TO-220 package with a properly sized heatsink on the tab handles that thermal load, but the junction temperature ceiling is 175 °C, so the heatsink thermal resistance needs to keep Tj below 150 °C for reliability margin.
