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You can ground the source, connect the drain to the desired bias voltage (with a large capacitor - maybe 1uF ceramic) across drain-source) and directly measure the gate capacitance with a battery-powered meter or LCR bridge. The Vishay datasheet says around 0.7nF at 30V and 1nF at 2V Vds (for Ciss).

If you don' t have a C meter, a reasonably small value (maybe 0.5 volt) square wave can be applied to the gate through a suitable resistor (maybe 1K) and you can observe the charge/discharge times to 1/e with a scope (x10 probe), then subtract the scope probe capacitance.

You can ground the source, connect the drain to the desired bias voltage (with a large capacitor - maybe 1uF ceramic) across drain-source) and directly measure the gate capacitance with a battery-powered meter or LCR bridge. The Vishay datasheet says around 0.7nF at 30V and 1nF at 2V Vds (for Ciss).

You can ground the source, connect the drain to the desired bias voltage (with a large capacitor - maybe 1uF ceramic) across drain-source) and directly measure the gate capacitance with a battery-powered meter or LCR bridge. The Vishay datasheet says around 0.7nF at 30V and 1nF at 2V Vds (for Ciss).

If you don' t have a C meter, a reasonably small value (maybe 0.5 volt) square wave can be applied to the gate through a suitable resistor (maybe 1K) and you can observe the charge/discharge times to 1/e with a scope (x10 probe), then subtract the scope probe capacitance.

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Spehro 'speff' Pefhany
  • 422.6k
  • 23
  • 352
  • 950

You can ground the source, connect the drain to the desired bias voltage (with a large capacitor - maybe 1uF ceramic) across drain-source) and directly measure the gate capacitance with a battery-powered meter or LCR bridge. The Vishay datasheet says around 0.7nF at 30V and 1nF at 2V Vds (for Ciss).