Floating MOSFET Gate Drive- how does it work?

LowQCab said:

When I first stumbled on to them I thought they must be a gift from God himself.
Then I realized the extremely limited Current available, and it popped my bubble.

On the other hand, a FET Gate only requires an RMS Current of around ~10%, or maybe even less,
of its PEAK Current Requirements during the actual switching transition time.
So, Capacitors are your friend ......... Maybe even an Inductor-Input Power-Supply topology.
Do the actual switching with a Darlington-Output-Opto,
and use the PV-Cells for a DC "Power-Supply".

Check out this Idea .......
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