You are talking about r4 and r5?
They are not needed in most cases, you add them and the diodes only in case you want to control the slew rate of the mosfets and protect the driver. Since this is a really simple and cheap board which won’t be passing any FCC certification, I omitted them. The resistors are for the mosfet’s benefit, the driver doesn’t know about them. Unless, the driver is so bad, that it cannot charge the gate capacitance, and the current overwhelms it, in which case, they are REALLY needed, but that simply means EG is a really bad driver. I might check that and add the resistors to see if the driver wakes up. But even if it does, then I’ll probably abandon the EG driver and go with either the Fortior (same footprint) or Silumin (a little different footprint but I have proven it works).
I’ would have never picked the EG driver, had it not been for the silicon shortage, there are so many much, much better drivers, all out of stock.
Cheers,
Valentine