Questions tagged [inverter]
Electrical device that converts direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC).
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How does power factor affect the efficiency of a 12v pure sine wave inverter?
I am trying to calculate how long I can run a given load (a sound system and laptop charger) from a 55 Ah 12 V battery using a pure sine wave inverter (specifically, this one). Though, at the end of ...
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How to fix Dirty Electricity on an Inverter
I have been testing my inverter (Victron pure sine wave) as well as a few others with my Trifield EM100 meter. Most that I have tested show extremely high measurements from over 1,000mVp-p to well ...
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I am not getting a perfect square wave output on an automatic inverter. Can any one explain why? And any solutions?
I am not getting a perfect square wave output on an automatic inverter. Can any one explain why? And any solutions?
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One battery in series never fully charges
I have two 12 V 110 Ah Eco Tree (LiFeP04) batteries wired in series with both batteries having the following technical specification:
Built-in BMS: Yes
Nominal voltage: 12.8 V
Nominal capacity: 110 ...
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How to compensate inverter nonlinearities in feedback manner?
I have implemented the direct field oriented control of the three phase induction motor. The control algorithm exploits a speed sensor and machine model based on the Luenberger state observer.
The ...
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PWM in ANSYS Twinbuilder software
Where can I learn PWM Control stratergies for MOSFET using algorithms in an inverter, in ANSYS Twinbuilder software? I also want to get familiarised with ANSYS interface.
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What sets a proper grid-forming inverter apart from a regular power station?
I have been told here that disconnecting solar panels with micro-inverters (like Enphase, APsystems or NEP) from the grid, and connecting a power station to the group using a suicide cable will ...
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PWM with Unipolar Voltage Switching in Single Phase Full Bridge-Odd vs Even frequency modulation ratio mf
I simulate a Single Phase Full Bridge Inverter in Matlab/Simulink and PSIM and the control method that I use is PWM with Unipolar Voltage Switching. In the book "Power Electronics Handbook", ...
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OpAmp Inverter Circuit
I have a single-ended input signal (0-10 kHz) and want to increase the input signal range for my ADC (AD4134) by inverting this signal and feeding original and inverted signal into the ADC. I use an ...
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LTspice Half bridge current spikes
I simulated a half bridge with two NMOS and at every switching event a current spike up to 1.2 A in the voltage source V4 occurs. I used a resistor as load because with any inductive or capacitive ...
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What is the difference between a hex inverting buffer and hex inverting Schmitt trigger?
What is the difference between an hex inverting buffer (e.g. TC74HC4049AP) and hex inverting Schmitt trigger (e.g. 74HCT14N)?
How can hysteresis be added to a CMOS hex inverting buffer to make it act ...
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PWM gate signals for three phase inverter in Pspice
I am comparing triangular (carrier) wave and sine waves(0-phase U, 120- Phase V,-120- Phase W) to generate varying duty PWM signals.
Gate drive signals for the high and low sides are proper if all op-...
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High power DC to AC inverters
I've looked around and found quite a few DC to AC inverter circuits; 12-24 V DC input and 120-240 V AC output.
None of them can support more than 400 W though, and they all use at least one big ...
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How to model the dc link voltage dynamic of the inverter fed induction machine drive in braking mode?
I have been attempting to find the differential equation describing the dynamic of the dc link voltage of the induction machine based electric drive in braking mode.
I have started with the energy ...
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Solving an AC Circuit Inverter Estimate
This is an electric power engineering question not electronic so this circuit doesn't actually solve. I added it for illustration purposes. Srate = Sout.
I'm trying to solve this below circuit for Vg ...
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Rise/Fall time in Microwind
Is there a way to measure rise/fall time, 10%-90% in Microwind?
What is shown is the 50% propagation delay I presume.
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Replacing fuses on inverter PCB
I have an inverter that stopped working (after the 12 V DC power source was repeatedly connected and disconnected through a relay with a false contact). When I opened it, I saw some fuses that are ...
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My lower side MOSFET in my half bridge SPWM inverter keeps getting shorted
I am designing a single phase SPWM inverter as a project. I am using IRF740 as MOSFETs (all N channels.) My low side MOSFET keeps getting shorted.
I have checked through DSO - there is no cross ...
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RCD in hybrid solar systems
Considering a hybrid solar systems that consists of:
a hybrid inverter/charger that is also connected to the power grid
batteries
pv panels
load.
I would like to ask about RCDs.
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Some problems about the BJT in the resonant Royer (or Baxandall) circuit
This question is a continuation of my previous post about the resonant Royer (or Baxandall) circuit. I have built a prototype to verify the circuit.
The parameters are as follows:
The parameters of ...
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Driving 3A through 0.25ohm coil with an H-bridge
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Using two 3.6 volt cells, I'd like to drive 3A through an electromagnet that is some wound magnet wire with a series resistance of ...
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Need a IRF540 Gate Driver Circuit for 5 Level Packed U Cell Inverter
I am trying to design a 5 level packed U cell inverter for dynamic wireless charging application using level shifted PWM technique.
I understand that I need a gate driver to operate my MOSFET along ...
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How to make the output of an inverter using MOSFETs and an IR2104 better using an Arduino
I have been trying to build an 12 V H-bridge inverter. The output I am getting is fine up to 0.5 A as shown below:
When I increase the load the waveform shape changes as shown below. I am using an ...
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I would like to build a delay circuit
I would like to build a latching relay control circuit, controlled by MCU.
I'd like to implement the following:
The idea is from here: https://pdfserv.maximintegrated.com/en/an/AN3288.pdf
The relay I ...
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H-Bridge blows the fuses in my house
Transistors: FDP18N50
Optocouplers: EL817B
I have been struggling with this for several days. I want to make a 230V AC/230V AC inverter that extends the wave to control the speed of a blower. When I ...
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How to determine parameters for the Resonant Royer (or Baxandall) circuit?
I'm learning about the Resonant Royer circuit (or Baxandall circuit).
There is a picture from the wikipedia(Royer circuit):
Or if you like, you can see my simulation.
I learn about how it works from ...
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Why is the AC voltmeter showing zero volts in this inverter?
I used this video and created this, in Proteus:
When I run it I get zero AC volts:
But the video is showing this:
Why is the AC voltmeter showing zero volts in this inverter?
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110 volt to 220 volt step up converter for air conditioner [closed]
Can I use some kind of plug in transformer to convert my 110V wall sockets to 220V to power a 30000 BTU air conditioner safely? The idea is to put in a 220V window unit in the same room as my central ...
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Electrical Characteristics of Toshiba Mosfets
I have been Searching for power mosfets for designing an inverter. One crucial parameter I was looking for is the Rds_on relationship with junction temperature.
Other manufacturers (infineon, Irf, ST) ...
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How does an IGBT 120A, 450 watt welding machine inverter mechanism work?
How can "RYU Weld Machine Inverter 120A IGBT 450 watt" be advertised so? Does it really output less than 4V?
How is such a rating determined?
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Is it possible to pair MPPT/PWM charger with a computer UPS? Would it prolong the UPS battery's lifespan?
I've an old UPS for my computer which draws 50 W on average and less than 150 W at full load. With the the built-in battery I only have about 10 minutes of backup time.
I am thinking about getting a ...
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EGS002 48 to 220 V inverter using IGBTs [closed]
I'm trying to build a 48 to 220 V inverter using IGBTs.
The problem is that when I put on a resistive load (1500 W tea kettle) it works fine, but when I put on a inductive/capacitive load (1000 W arc ...
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50 Hz and 60 Hz combined neutrals [closed]
I have two inverters. Inverter A is producing 220 V, 50 Hz while inverter B is producing 110 V, 60 Hz. Can they share a neutral on the output?
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What happens when a grid tie inverter is out of sync?
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I have a growatt sph6000 tl bl-us which is a split-phase hybrid solar inverter. I purchased this with the assumption that my grid was split-phase, with the two lines offset by 180 degrees. ...
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Difference between Safe Operating Area (SOA) of two MOSFETs
I want to compare the Safe Operating Areas of two MOSFETs based on the graphs given by the manufacturers in the datasheets.
Our application is a 24 V inverter. What I concluded based on the ...
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Can I use an Arduino for controlling MOSFET transistors to make a pure sine wave AC power inverter?
Modern AC invertors use controllers to turn on/off transistors to generate PWM pulses that will become a pure sine after filtering.
Is it possible to use an Arduino as that controller? What cheap ...
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Can a modified square wave (average square wave in each discrete time interval) be made from only full bridge inverter without transformer, LC filter?
I'm studying about inverter PWM with textbook.
The similar one with attached figure is in the textbook.
I can understand how the blue chopped square voltage is made.
In the text book, the red curve is ...
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How does a transistor inverter work?
When the base of the transistor is LOW, no current can pass through the collector to the emitter and therefore if the current is 0 the voltage is 0 and all current will pass through the resistor that ...
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Help to diagnose 3-phase induction motor stuttering
I’m working on a project where I want to run a 3-phase induction motor (see picture for specifics) using a VFD (Variable Frequency Drive). The VFD I have is a cheap Chinese one (the “T13-750w-12-H”), ...
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9V DC offset voltage at phase out of inverter section
In this circuit, the gate driver is powered with a 12V supply and there is no PWM given at the HI and LI. In this idle condition, I measured 9VDC on the HS pin. Once PWM is given on the HI and LI pins,...
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Why does this inverter use two bridges?
I recently destroyed a 1000 W-rated 24 VDC -> 220 VAC pure sine wave inverter I bought a while back from Ebay, by connecting its output to mains power inadvertently.
Afterwards, I decided to ...
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Stopping electric arcs between layers in PCB - big PCB burn
Firstly, let me preface this with the fact that I am not interested in chastising the user, and I am not interested in looking at the original source of the arc (it was a tool accidentally breaching ...
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How should I correct this NMOS static inverter?
So in my notebook I have this circuit scheme for a NMOS static inverter:
Vi is the input
Vo is the output
VDD is the voltage source
It is obvious that the M2 MOSFET will never turn on. Is the circuit ...
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Inverter and main panel both have G-N bond. Best way to avoid ground currents?
I am using an inverter that internally bonds neutral and ground. It feeds a main panel via transfer switch (as required by code). Of course my main panel also bonds neutral and ground by code. The ...
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Common mode choke and inductor for inverter circuit
I am building an inverter that uses an H-Bridge and PWM to generate something that should get close to a sine wave. My original design only included a common mode choke, however now that I am doing ...
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What are typical "crest factor" values for significantly non-linear typical household loads?
What are typical "crest factor" values for significantly non-linear typical household loads?
By household loads, I mean anything either plugged in to a receptacle or hard-wired like ceiling ...
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Impact of reverse conduction on control strategy of PMSM motor
On a three-phase inverter working as a Master Control Unit (MCU) to control a permanent magnet synchronous motor, if we replace the IGBTs with SiC MOSFETs, what could be the possible impact of this ...
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How does a power generator control its output to the grid?
I found this answer: On-grid solar system - how to control power out from solar system to grid?
But I would like to know a little more about the details and the dynamics of the inverter. As an example,...
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Electric vehicle charger input to inverter
I am based in the UK. I have an electric vehicle charger:
Built-in protective earth neutral (PEN) fault device
Dynamic load balancing
Power output / max current: 7.4kW / 32A
Nominal supply: 230 V AC,...
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Can I use a device of 100-240 V~, 50/60 Hz on a 720 W/1200 VA inverter? [closed]
I am using an inverter back-up power solution device with 720 W/1200 VA output capacity.
I have connected a sound speaker with the below specs:
Input voltage: 100-240 V~, 50/60 Hz
Input current: 200 - ...
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