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PWM frequency is 32 kHz so that's a period of about 32 us and half that time the transistor will be dumping energy into charging up those capacitor. It'll be doing it totally inefficiently too so maybe half that energy again is wasted in transistor heat. 

Capacitor acquired energy is: -

\$\dfrac{CV^2}{2} = \dfrac{2.2 \times 10^{-6}\times 144 }{2}\$ = 0.158mJ

BUT thisbecause charging the cap is done totally inefficiently by using the transistor and, at a guess, the transistor will throw away just as much energy. It does this 32,000 times per second so that's a power of about 5 watts per transistor.

Now I may have over-egged this a bit by assuming that each 2.2uF would become totally discharged in one cycle of PWM but I'd wager that each transistor is doing well over a watt just driving these capacitors back to full charge (32,000 times per second). Get rid of the caps and if you still have problems with noise then come back and tell us.

The lower the duty cycle the worse this will be because there will be a longer time for these caps to discharge and hence inefficiently re-acquire more of their 0.158mJ when the transistor switches back on again.

PWM frequency is 32 kHz so that's a period of about 32 us and half that time the transistor will be dumping energy into charging up those capacitor. It'll be doing it totally inefficiently too so maybe half that energy is wasted. Capacitor energy is: -

\$\dfrac{CV^2}{2} = \dfrac{2.2 \times 10^{-6}\times 144 }{2}\$ = 0.158mJ

BUT this is done totally inefficiently by using the transistor and at a guess the transistor will throw away just as much energy. It does this 32,000 times per second so that's a power of about 5 watts per transistor.

Now I may have over-egged this a bit but I'd wager that each transistor is doing well over a watt just driving these capacitors. Get rid of the caps and if you still have problems with noise then come back and tell us.

PWM frequency is 32 kHz so that's a period of about 32 us and half that time the transistor will be dumping energy into charging up those capacitor. It'll be doing it totally inefficiently too so maybe half that energy again is wasted in transistor heat. 

Capacitor acquired energy is \$\dfrac{CV^2}{2} = \dfrac{2.2 \times 10^{-6}\times 144 }{2}\$ = 0.158mJ

BUT because charging the cap is done totally inefficiently, at a guess, the transistor will throw away just as much energy. It does this 32,000 times per second so that's a power of about 5 watts per transistor.

Now I may have over-egged this a bit by assuming that each 2.2uF would become totally discharged in one cycle of PWM but I'd wager that each transistor is doing over a watt just driving these capacitors back to full charge (32,000 times per second). Get rid of the caps and if you still have problems with noise then come back and tell us.

The lower the duty cycle the worse this will be because there will be a longer time for these caps to discharge and hence inefficiently re-acquire more of their 0.158mJ when the transistor switches back on again.

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PWM frequency is 32 kHz so that's a period of about 32 us and half that time the transistor will be dumping energy into charging up those capacitor. It'll be doing it totally inefficiently too so maybe half that energy is wasted. Capacitor energy is: -

\$\dfrac{CV^2}{2} = \dfrac{2.2 \times 10^{-6}\times 144 }{2}\$ = 0.158mJ

BUT this is done totally inefficiently by using the transistor and at a guess the transistor will throw away just as much energy. It does this 32,000 times per second so that's a power of about 5 watts per transistor.

Now I may have over-egged this a bit but I'd wager that each transistor is doing well over a watt just driving these capacitors. Get rid of the caps and if you still have problems with noise then come back and tell us.