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Dc to Ac Inverter

Warning

Do not reapeat anything in this article, if you are not qualified. AC current can easily kill you! You have been warned.

A simple DC to AC Inverter

This article is coming soon, I just have to improve my design a little which requires more time and money. Anyway my motivation for writing: It is so wonderfully easy to go from Ac to DC. You just use a half or full bridge rectifier (to be fair there's a lot more engineering involved, but in theory once you know it, it's simple). However, going from DC to AC is another story. This article aims will show how I built a simple inverter for educational purposes using a MCU, 4 mosfets, and SPWM signal (see cover photo). My reason for doing so is to learn more about EE in general, but moreover as a first project to fully learn about motor drivers. Let me explain, modern motor drivers on electric vehicals are typically brushless "DC" motors since they offer the optimal torque-effciency compared to other options like brushed DC. Let's disect what excatly a brushless "Dc" motor is. It's typically, a 3-phase DC-AC inverter with the electric motor's stator configured as a Y and natural magnets on the top. So, AC motor not DC, but we call it brushless DC. Anyway, the swithcing device on these motor drivers is typically mosfets in an H-configuration though more advanced applications now use IGBT and zero loss switching alogrithms. That's not a beginner friendly engineering project, so I'm going to stick with a simple H-bridge DC to AC inveter (which has plenty of engineering challenges on it's own, but will eventually switch to expirements with 3-phase AC (safely)). My end goal is not build a solid state 3 phase inverter but to better understand burshless/3 phase motor systems, so i can utilize the skill to design electronics for EVs such as drones and eskates. Anyway, coming soon because Digikey orders add up quick for something I could get for 20$ on marketplace.


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