AC DC Power Supply

Does solar panel generate reactive power?

Friday, August 12, 2016

Reactive power is a result of current and voltage waveforms not being "in phase" with each other. If
the reactive power is required by the load, the load is considered "lagging" (current lags voltage; load
appears as an inductive component). If the load can be over-excited, it can produce reactive power
and is referred to as "leading" (current leads voltage;, load appears as a capacitive component).

The only machines ...

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Are your DC systems grounded?

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Most DC systems in vehicles and UPSs are connected to ground (earth) on one pole. Automobiles in
the U.S. ground negative. This eliminates high static floating voltages and minimizes arcing when
device insulation begins to fail. It also allows a device to be fed with a single wire and use the
chassis as a return.

Since an electric substation control system is considered an emergency system, it is not grounded. It
is better to burn up a device than to trip off a circuit and disable ...
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Power Inverter Basics

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Basic knowledge of power inverter

Power inverter mainly adopts the PWM at present, controller switch to DC rapidly in a pulse-period
to ensure that the DC integral value is equal to the sampling values of AC sine wave at the same
time. After filtered, more than 96% sine wave output can be realized. Pulse inverter is self-excited
inverter that output voltage is pulse modulation. This kind of power inverter reduces the voltage and
electric current pulse number by increasin ...
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Electrical Standards into DC

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Since there are several electrical standards: by frequency 50/60Hz, by low voltage (residential /
commercial) use: 120-220-240-277-380-480V. and we could unify between
European/American/Asian use changing all to DC 12Volts, which is used by cars. DC Green
technologies are now present in power sources (solar panels) and most loads could be served in DC
(led illumination, TVs and all electronic appliances) using USB co ...
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UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) Failing
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Q: I have a situation where our UPS servicing data center rack systems are failing repetitively after
replacements.

We know our mains transformer is undersized in terms of load capacity and under voltages are
measured going to the input of the UPS that is providing back up power to data center in a rack
mount. However these voltages measured were 110VAC and still within operating range. In another
facility with the same rack systems, colleagues are saying they're seeing "brown out ...
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Difference Between Neutral and Ground

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Neutral is the normal return path for current coming out of the live terminal and through the load.
Ground is a safety wire that (all being well) should not be carrying any current. It is connected to the
chassis etc. If some goes wrong inside the box and a live wire touches the chassis, the ground
connection should prevent the metal parts going to high voltage. In this pathological case, the
ground wire will carry a (possibility very large) current, at least until the fuse blows or the circu ...
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12 Volt 1000 Watt Power Inverter Design Process

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

This power inverter is designed for 12v DC, but also can be connected to 24v DC, my goal is 800
watt, strive to 1000 watt pure sine wave output. The inverter overall structure is, downside is a large
cooling plate, upside is a power board with same size as the cooling plate, length 228mm, width
140mm. 4 power tubes of voltage boost portion, 4 power tubes of H-bridge and 4 TO220 packed fast
diodes are screwed on the cooling plate ...
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Homemade 2000w power inverter with circuit diagrams

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Few days ago, GoHz made a 24V 2000W power inverter in home, sharing some design schematics
and circuit diagrams.
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Advantages of DC hipot test compare to AC test

Friday, September 25, 2015

One of the advantages of using a DC test voltage is that the leakage current trip can be set to a
much lower value than that of an AC test voltage. This would allow a manufacturer to filter those
products that have marginal insulation, which would have been passed by an AC tester.

When using a dc hipot tester, the capacitors in the circuit could be highly charged and, therefore, a
safe-discharge device or setup is needed. However, it is a good practice to always ensure that a
prod ...
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Apply DC to a transformer it will burn out

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

For a transformer to work, the current in one coil has to somehow make current flow in the other coil
and the circuit it's connected to. A DC current in one coil will make a magnetic field on the other coil,
but a magnetic field by itself won't drive any electrons around. A CHANGING magnetic field,
however, does create an electric force which will accelerate those electrons in the other coil into
carrying a current. This process is described by Faraday's law of induction. You get a changing f ...
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Get a suitable AC system

Saturday, March 7, 2015

MOTOR is defined as "a machine giving, imparting, or producing motion". This means the output of
an electric motor is a mechanical force; the input is voltage.

GENERATOR is defined as "a machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy".
This means the input of a generator is a mechanical force; the output is voltage.

The purpose of a commutator is to provide the switching action in the current waveform to allow the
magnetic field developed by the rotor ...
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Why we use 24V DC?

Thursday, February 19, 2015

When we say control the first thing comes in theory or practical is that it should have a low value of
noise which is apparently achieved by DC.
- 24V is far safer limit than compared to higher values 115V AC.
- 24V DC is more resistant to control circuit drop out caused by high inrush using contactors used for
starting motors or any capacitive load as well.
- Modern day electronics can now be operated at lesser voltage, Optos, relays, improving efficiency
of the system and l ...
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Alternative of inverter on wind energy turbine for electrification

Thursday, February 12, 2015

There are several reasons you see inverters in such heavy use in renewable energy. You have the
problem of converting from one voltage level at the source, to a substantially different voltage. And
the source voltage can vary substantially. To do this, you must employ some type of alternating-or-
pulsed input to a conversion system. And, that system must include an inductive device. I.e., a coil
or transformer. A dc up-conversion would be almost impossible otherwise, and a dc down-
conversion w ...
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The Future of Switching Power

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

After China has built the first all DC city, during the half century that we in the U.S. are weaning
ourselves from 60 Hz AC, 60Hz transformers will not be constructed by present customs. Rather,
they will be switching power emulations. These emulation transformers are completely within the
present state of the switching art. The technology will not use much clocked pulse width modulation,
though clocked 100% duty cycle, may prevail over hysteretic lo ...
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Convert DC drive system to AC drive system

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Conversion of DC drive to AC drive is complex. Most important are the changes, impact or
improvement in your power system (motor sizing, power factor, power quality, harmonics, efficiency,
operation/maintenance, controls, etc.).

Many of the considerations for comparing AC and DC drive systems can be covered if you have a
procedure for making an economic evaluation between the two technologies. Areas of comparison
include: system purchase price, spare parts costs, motor cooling fac ...
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Difference between AC motor and DC motor

Saturday, January 10, 2015

The most basic difference is the power source. AC motors are powered from alternating current (AC)
while DC motors are powered from direct current (DC), such as batteries, DC power supplies or an
AC-to-DC power converter. DC wound field motors are constructed with brushes and a commutator,
which add to the maintenance, limit the speed and usually reduce the life expectancy of brushed DC
motors. AC induction motors do not use brushes; they are very rugged and have long life
expectancies. The f ...
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Why DC not AC?

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

You already know from your engineering that higher voltages results to less operational losses for
the same amount of power delivered. The bulk capacity of 3000MW has a great influence on the
investment costs obviously, that determines the voltage level and the required number of parallel
circuit. The need for higher voltage DC levels has become more feasible for bulk power projects
(such as this one) especially when the transmission line is more than 1000 km long. So on the
economics, invest ...
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Using a 3 phase inverter power back to AC source

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Wound rotor motor is not the best option for SAG mills because the slip rings always are a problem
even with liquid resistors. Best option is synchronous motor in combination with variable frequency
drive. However if you already have the wound rotor motor the ERS operation is simple.

Instead of dissipating the rotor power in a resistor we can use it to power a 3 phase inverter that
returns the power to the AC power source. The line commutated i ...
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Harmonics in train power system

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

For Metro DC traction power systems, the commonly adopted nominal voltages are 750V DC and
1500V DC. The DC substations are normally fed from a High Voltage (HV) 11 kV or 33 kV 3-phase
AC network in the UK. To convert the 3-phase AC voltage to DC voltage, a modern DC substation
employs a 3-winding transformer (delta-delta-star) to feed a 12-pulse rectifier (consisting of 2 x 6-
pulse diode bridges, the outputs of which are connected in either parallel or series to form a 12-pulse
rectifier). N ...
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Convert AC to DC power
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

For the Logic Power supply I want to convert AC 120/240V to 24/15/5/3.3 VDC. I am wondering what
is the best topology to do this. Currently I am using a power transformer to convert down to 24vac
rectify and tap off of that. Is there a way to reduce/remove the power transformer? Should I change
to a flyback style of converter? I need about 5-10 Watts DC power total.

If you do not care about power factor (means no need of power factor correction), then indeed a
possible solution is ...
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AC DC Power Supply
Why we store DC energy, but not AC?
Thursday, December 11, 2014

While we talking about storing energy. The law of conservation of energy states energy cannot be
created or destroyed only changed in form. So what you are considering is changing kinetic energy
to potential energy. With regards to electricity that would be electrons.

AC current and voltage changes their polarity 50 times a second (for 50Hz system). When
connected to an AC supply, the energy storage device charges during positive half cycle and
discharges during the negative half ...
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Advantages of DC system over AC system

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

AC is easier to manage and convert to higher or lower voltage using transformer which are normally
very high efficiency machines. Nevertheless DC systems show at least a couple of advantages
respect to AC:
1) There are not reactive losses (capacitive and inductive) which affect in particular the long
distribution lines and this permits, if necessary, the energy distribution using underground cables.
This would be impossible with AC because of the capacitive losses. This is the principle ...
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How is HVDC changing the future of power supply?

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

HVDC means High Voltage Direct Current and it enables controllable exchange of Active Electrical
Power between two stations since the two stations in case of their being connected over HVDC link.
As any electrical engineer would know, flow of power between two ends of a transmission line would
comprise two components one of which would be Active Power measured in Watts (W) or kilo Watts
(kW) or Mega Watts (MW) etc, and the other component wou ...