Inverters, How do they work?

Inverters have taken a prominent role in the modern technological world due to the sudden rise of electric cars and renewable energy technologies. Inverters convert DC power to AC power. They are also used in Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Control of Electrical Machines and Active Power filtering. This video will explain how to get a pure sinusoidal electric power output from DC power input in a step by step logical manner.
I thank Mr. Nachiketa Deshmukh for his extensive technical support in creation of this video. He is a Phd scholar at IIT Kanpur. Check out his Google scholar profile.
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No he didn't ... he failed to explain how comparators work and another thing ... 60 Hz is 60 oscillations per second NOT 120 as he quoted

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@@janinapalmer8368 120 oscillations is correct only because there employed 2 switches for the flow of current at a time

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[@alvaros.]

So, to generate a pure sine wave, you only need a pure sine wave, a triangular wave and a comparator... but, how do you get the pure sine wave to compare with the triangular one?? It's like "dehydrated water; to get water, just add water"...

[@kassimmtepele5986]

Remember the comparison is done within a microcontroller/microprocessor then the output signal is sent to a driver which is in charge of switching ON/OFF the IGBTs

[@eneasota]

It's not just about getting a pure sine wave, since there is no real possibility to get it, there will always be deformations and noises, however minuscule they are, this type of inverter is not really an inverter, but a converter (the term inverter applies in many different ways in electrical and electronics engineering). The goal is to have a signal on the input and achieve as nearly as possible sine wave with high power output. The input can be of any type, sine, triangle, square, saw, analog or digitally modulated signal, PCM, PWM, FM, AM, PM, QAM or whatever type of modulation that can be used to create a sine wave without complicating the circuit unnecessarily that will guarantee a high power sine wave output.

[@tatianabasileus]

If it's in a microcontroller, it's probably comparing values in 2 lookup tables (one for sine, one for triangle) based on the clock input.

[@deang5622]

You can generate a pure sinewave using a Wien bridge oscillator. You can even synthesize them using a microcontroller, DAC and low pass output filter.

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[@phamhuutri1996]

Im a bit confused here. Where does the sine wave that we use to compare with the triangle wave come from ? Are we supposed to create a sine wave from the DC signal ?

[@jupa7166]

You make it - with the amplitude and frequency you need, it's small signal. The circuit will follow in a "real power" path, thus recreating it from dc.

[@gigelfranaru]

@@jupa7166 So to convert DC to AC, you first need an AC signal anyway. Doesn't make sense to me either. Why not amplify the AC signal you already have then ?

[@jupa7166]

@@gigelfranaru You can call the process amplifying if You want :-) The thing is: input signal is microwatts, output signal is kilowatts.

[@gigelfranaru]

@@jupa7166 i see. But the whole point is that you want to generate AC because you don't have it in the first place.

[@jupa7166]

@@gigelfranaru Sure, of course, BUT generating small signal is really easy (one opamp or microcontroller or dsp plus a few parts), in case of a real power it is not that easy. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that modern designs skip that "comparator thingy" altogether and just use DSP which drive switches directly using some fancy algotithm, e.g. space vector modulation (which I have a hard time wrapping my head around, unfortunately...). So You are right, You can skip a step here and do it directly.

[@Jarrod_C]

Ok this was decent. But I would have liked more in depth on the smoothing to create the sinusoidal wave. Also where did the triangular wave come from?

[@budavargas]

Both can be generated using a uC or a DDS. The good thing is that they can be very low power signals. Control of them gives you the output frequency

[@pepefrogic3034]

Precisely. Not explained at all! Especially the triangular wave.

[@jackriddle3891]

@@budavargas Thanks! Any vids on this topic?

[@diogoduarte4097]

When you connect a constant current source to a capacitor, it will output a rising voltage ramp. Discharging the capacitor with a constant current source causes a dropping ramp. Therefore making triangular waves easy. A constant current source can be made using a voltage comparator with negative feedback and because it's output voltage is inverted relative to input, you can make a loop that self-oscillates.

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[@thomasmaughan4798]

The reason for NOT simply producing high power sine wave is heat dissipation. When a transistor is "off" there is no current, hence no power dissipation; when it is fully "on" there is no voltage across it (well, not much) but lots of current; still not much dissipation as heat. The problem is between those states, you have a combination of high current and pretty substantial voltage drop, particularly if you have a reactive load such that max current hits at the same time as max voltage drop. A small 300 watt inverter will be consuming over 300 watts all by itself to deliver 300 watts; or an efficiency less than 50 percent. Consequently it is crucial for the transistors or MOSFETS to be either fully ON or fully OFF and never half-on. MOSFETS are chosen for rapid switching, insulated gate and most of all, very low "on" resistance. This produces high efficiency and low heating of the inverter. But they can self-trigger if feeding a highly reactive load so that's a thing to watch out for. If that happens you'll know it because you will either blow a fuse (circuit breakers are too slow) or the MOSFET will simply explode.

[@eneasota]

0:56 The circuit is called H-Bridge, which has many applications, one of them is the full bridge inverter. The full bridge inverter is a device that uses other circuits to control the H-Bridge as needed.

[@Dawood4]

Full bridge and H-Bridge are synonymous words

[@eneasota]

@@Dawood4 Yes, H-Bridge is most certainly a full bridge, but not necessarily a full bridge inverter, the first time I applied the H-Bridge I used it as a full bridge driver for a stepper motor. The circuit on the video is just H-Bridge, applied as a full bridge power inverter (DC to AC converter), not a full bridge AC/AC converter, not a full bridge driver, not a full bridge anything else. When you say that this circuit is a full-bridge, it doesn't make sense. A full-bridge what? My point is, the H-Bridge is the circuit and the principle of work, the full-bridge is the application, whatever full-bridge that may be.

[@Dawood4]

@@eneasota I mean to say, H-Bridge and full bridge have no difference in meaning. You can flip your usage of 'H-Bridge' and 'full bridge' and not change the meaning of anything. You can call it an H-Bridge inverter, or a full bridge inverter as they mean the same thing exactly. I think your dual usage of the word would confuse most people. Perhaps you mean 'Bridge Tied Load'

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+karthi k It's true that inductors smooth current and capacitors smooth voltage, but resistors don't smooth current. The voltage over a resistor is equal to the current through the resistor, multiplied by its resistance: u_R(t)=R*i_R(t) ( _ denotes that the following symbol is in subscript). Here you can see that if i changes, u changes immediately. u_R(t)=R*i_R(t) is known as the Constitutive equation of a resistor and describes the relation between the voltage over the resistor and the current flowing through it. The current flowing through a capacitor on the other hand, is equal to the capacitance of the capacitor, multiplied by the change in voltage over the capacitor. i_C(t)=C*du_C(t)/dt (d denotes a change in the following variable. dy(t)/d(t) means the change in y(t) divided by the change in t, where dt approaches 0. This is known as the derivative of y(t)) Here you can see that the change in voltage over the capacitor is also equal to the current flowing through it, divided by its capacitance, so if you make the capacitor larger, while keeping the current flowing through it unchanged, the change in voltage will be smaller. This is what is meant by saying a capacitor resists change in voltage. For the inductor the voltage over it is equal to the inductance multiplied by the change in current flowing through it, so its constitutive equation is u_L(t)=L*di(t)/dt. Here you can see that the same voltage over a large inductor gives a smaller change in current compared to when this voltage is applied over a small inductor. So, we now know what the constitutive equations are for the resistor (u_R(t)=R*i_R(t) or u=R*i), the capacitor (i_C(t)=C*du_C(t)/dt or i=C*u' (prime notation ' is another way of noting the derivative.)) and the inductor (u_L(t)=L*di_L(t)/dt or u=L*i'), but how can we explain these formulae physically? First we must know what current and voltage exactly are. Current is the movement of electrons through a material (even though we have defined the current to flow in the opposite direction of the flow of electrons. For our purposes this doesn't matter. You just have to flip the sign.) Voltage is the potential energy of the electrons. If you have a bunch of electrons or other negative charges at one spot, it has a negative voltage. this is because like charges repel, so the more negative charges you have at one spot, the more they want to go to a place with less negative charges. If you electrically connect a place with many electrons to a place with few electrons, electrons start to flow from the place with many electrons to the place with few electrons, until the electrons are approximately equally spaced. Let's first use this to analyze the capacitor. The most basic capacitor is made of 2 opposing metal plates, separated by an insulative barrier, for example air. Let's apply a constant flow of electrons from one plate of the capacitor to the other. Since the electrons can't go anywhere other than the plates (They can't flow through the air.), the electrons will accumulate at one plate (decreasing the voltage) and the other plate will lose electrons (increasing the voltage), so with a constant flow, the voltage across the capacitor increases linearly. This explains the constitutive equation of the capacitor. What about the inductor? Let’s take an inductor and increase the current flowing through it. This will generate a magnetic field, storing the potential energy (voltage) of the electrons moving through the inductor in the magnetic field. If the potential energy of the electrons is zero, the magnetic field is unchanging and the voltage is zero. If the current were to decrease, the magnetic field breaks down, releasing the potential energy, causing a negative voltage, keeping the current up. In other words, an increase in current causes a positive voltage and a decrease in current causes a negative voltage. A resistor also has a current flowing through it, just like and inductor, but instead of generating a magnetic field, the energy gets dissipated in the form of heat, so a constant current means potential energy is constantly dissipated in the form of heat, causing a constant voltage. I hope this helps you in understanding why capacitors, inductors and resistors behave the way they do. -Dehim

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[@KurtRonaldEsteban]

Thanks for the video. I would just like to clarify a thing at 0:37. Periodic waves, even though not at 50% duty cycle.. are still considered AC as long as the currents go from one polarity to other.

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[@richardvaughn2705]

The circuit is actually simple. Usually a microcontroller generates the pulses that turn on the h bridge (totem pole can be used instead) which then passes through a filter (capacitor and inductor) then to a transformer. Inverters without a transformer use a boost converter before the h bridge and switch at the output voltage. The microcontroller samples the output and adjusts the pulse widths to adjust voltage and power factor. A pure sine wave inverter is basically a class D amplifier with a 60hz sine wave input. In fact you could use a class D audio amp for car subwoofers and a transformer to create AC.

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i like how the education system in my country says the following: "you can only change from AC to DC not the opposite" while everyone knows inverters are a thing

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[@wassollderscheiss33]

At 3:30 you introduce triangular waves. Where do they come from. At the same timestamp you say the triangular waves are compared with a sine wave. Where does the sine wave come from? Wasn't it the whole point to create a sine wave? And now you just suddenly already have one? To create one? Can you please explain that more comprehensibly?

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[@ganko2240]

Ok, lemme give it a try, Generating a low power sine wave is easy, generating a high power sine wave, efficiently is harder. Now, triangle waves are the classic way of generating a PWM signal because when 'comparated' against another voltage the peaks of the triangles will translate to a thinner duty cycle in the squarish PWM output. Think of a mountain in the middle of the ocean, as the water level rises the base of the mountain gets smaller. Thus with a simple, moving voltage we can change the duty cycle; Now instead of a stable voltage we substitute with the small sine wave, and now your PWM's average power will mimic that of a sinewave. This signal is then sent to the transistors who switch the main, large power. This is done this way because if you drive transistors in the "linear region" they will dissipate a lot of heat, that is to say they are much more efficient when you run them fully on or fully off. Does this make any sense?

[@mannahusum]

I really enjoyed the description of PWM. It was something I wanted to know for some time. I thought that mechanical, so called rotary converters, where used as inverters before the development of tubes or semiconductors. - I am sure nobody would use them this way currently anymore, but aren’t they still a viable option when it comes to convert DC to 50Hz or 60Hz AC?

[@dovos8572]

well you can use them, but they are really inefficient... you are basically turning a dc motor, that acts as AC generator at the same time, so you would lose almost all of your available power to heat and magnetic losses before you even startet to use the AC Voltage.

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@@dovos8572 electric motors of any sort have efficiencies in the 90% range, so two in 'series' will still have an efficiency above 80%...

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@@Ironic1950 they only have that efficiency in their optimal load and depending on what kind of electric motor you have it can be less than 30% efficiency if you are at the wrong load point (not enough load and too much load).

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PWM pulses can be fed into an integrator (op-amp with resistive input at inverting junction and capacitive feedback), (also known as Miller integrator), then the choppy "staircase" sine-wave is smoothed out with a shunt capacitor to ground (low-pass filter) to remove high-frequency harmonics from the "staircase" wave.

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[@MCRuCr]

I think they missed to explain how the sin-wave and inverted sin-wave signals are generated. My guess for this is a LC-circuit

[@MetaJamm]

nowaday general purpose micrcontrollers (for 2-20 bucks price) have a seweral hardware implemented pwm generators on board (that can be twiked different ways), an also capable do full software pwm on their gpio pins, if you need some exotics.

[@kapilhooda2373]

They can easily be generated with the help of an operational amplifier

[@woutmoerman711]

Check 5:38, it's discussed there.

[@biologicalagent]

Lovely video. I’m an inverter fanatic! What about creating a small signal sine-wave and using it to drive the mosfets in a push-pull configuration? Basically amplify a pure sine though a pre-amp and use fets to create a perfect high powered sine.

[@Enigma758]

I think the problem is with power loss as you will be operating the mosfet in the ohmic region and dissipating much power as heat. OTOH PWM which drives the mosfet to full on and full off wastes far less energy.

[@Kaepsele337]

So how do the comparators work? Where does the sine wave come from? How does the timing work? I feel like this video answered all the trivial questions and but left open the most crucial point.

[@e995a1ad]

Wait, the sine wave that is fed to the comparators, where does it come from?

[@matgod2004]

If the sine wave doesn't need to provide actual power, only be there as a reference, is quite easy to make an accurate one combining a few Op-Amps and capacitors, or using pure PWM with higher switching frequency and a sine wave table in software.... The need for comparators came when you have a load that change over time, a fixed solutions would over and under voltage the output.

[@Tomyb15]

Yeah it seemed like this whole complicated apparatus to make sine waves was was unnecesary since it relied on sine waves to work lol. They should have at least mentioned that. Else it looks like everything is pointless or the solution appeared from under the sleeve.

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[@MRGCProductions20996]

but how EXACTLY?

[@akh345]

Sine wave is easy to produce (a $5 walkie-talkie can do that). It is hard to produce a *high-amplitude* sine wave capable of giving enough power to accelerate a Tesla to 60mph in 3 sec.

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How are the triangular waves produced in this case?

[@susmithdas4312]

Triangular waves can be made using many circuits which only need dc power like integrator circuit which produce triangular wave from square wave

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[@tindicio44]

Excuse me, on minute 3:30 where do you get the sine wave to compare with triangle wave because it is what we want to produce? Thank you!

[@mcmanus4859]

HAHAHAHAH! That's exactly my question. Why struggle to produce something that we already have in the first place?

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Yeah my doubt is also the same..

[@badorastrome5418]

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[@monetize_this8330]

Video glossed over key details - the generation of (how?) triangular and sine waves into the comparators.

[@bubbahogg-buga4613]

i thought the same thing.. if u have a sine wave into the comparitor, whats the point, u already got it

[@harshsharma5768]

@@bubbahogg-buga4613 the sine wave going in the comparator is having an amplitude of not more than 12V, while the sine wave coming out of inverter has a magnitude of 120 or 240 volts depending on where you live. With the help of function generator you can generate the required sine and triangular wave.

[@IICUXthePRO]

4:20 if we already got a perfect sin wave, why would we need to control some transistors to modulate a sin wave while the first one can just be amplified?

[@yassineseghrouchni8175]

Good point

[@beaclaster]

how about the 3 phase square(ish?) wave AC (average: 0) electromagnetic motor? (BLDC)

[@raghavdixit6832]

It is not bldc motor it is 3 phase dc motor

[@adityarai9203]

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[@legalthakur]

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[@boldjawad]

Remote control works on Duracell batteries

[@drumintercourse]

I doubt he will. Remote controllers are very simple. It either works by radio frequency or infrared (i suppose bluetooth as well but thats more software than hardware). Radio frequency being the simplest, just generates and radio frequency then the receiver just closes circuit when the frequency is received. Infrared essentially blinks a light towards a infrared sensor and decodes it as binary (I believe). Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken, anyone.

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[@maxim5360]

To generate sin wave we need... both sin wave AND triangular one. Does anybody see contradiction?

[@GnanaPrakash86AP]

@@maxim5360 Man I don't know why ppl keep asking that same question. I'm sitting here with the ability to calculate and construct a sine wave with my bare hands. I'm pretty sure they can easily use a few semiconductor devices to create a signal. since a signal is all they need for reference.

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[@kinnai8334]

1:43 It's 60Hz but I think that in Europe it's all 50Hz

[@johneygd]

True that, we europeans have to deal with 50hz, so everything will run 20% slower.

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[@vanrex7682]

For anyone who wants to now how to wire a comparator. U can take an OP (operational amplifier) feed in neg and pos supply voltage and then the functions u need to compare to + and - . The output will be neg supply voltage when U+ < U- and pos supply voltage when U+ > U-.

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Great materials, always good to revisit the basics. Thank you! Please keep it up!

[@Timmmmm42y]

I'm looking to get into this field and this is by far the best video I have found on this topic

[@gideonstowell3070]

But where does the comparator element get the perfect sinusoids to compare against??

[@ajreukgjdi94]

This was exactly my question. My guess is that a microcontroller could be fitted with a digital to analog converter (DAC) and sent it a 10-bit number whose magnitude is converted to an analog signal using magic electron pixies or however they work. This could produce the sine and triangular waves with ease as long as the scan time of whatever program running is probably at least 20 times faster than the PWM frequency. (And the response time of the DAC)

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They started out long ago as voltage dividing resistor banks back in the 1960's. They were mainly used for low frequency AC motor controls. Sadly, I'm that old and had to work on them.

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[@lighteningwawa]

3:30 So where does the sine waves that are compared to triangular waves come from?

[@ToddHowardWithAGun]

Those are logic units. That sine wave is just an equation in logic.

[@2024comingforyou]

Fourier transform

[@kneifelimre2517]

Or maybe from oscillator source like a cristal?

[@lighteningwawa]

​@@kneifelimre2517 A crystal doesn't produce a sine wave, but a weird-shaped one. You have to do conversion, which I want to learn how. If I rephrase my question, our goal here is to obtain some sine wave, and the way to do it is to have some other sine wave first?

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[@theadel8591]

And where do the triangular and sine waves get created in the circuit ?

[@ryanmurphy3011]

It generates synthetic ones in its control software using calculations. You can alter the frequency of the inverter either in its software or on an external control if it has one, then the software will generate a fake sine wave at the frequency of your choice to use for comparison with the generated fake triangular wave then it will give you a real digital output.

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Finally. Someone has what I am looking for. Thank you so much!

[@closetcleaner]

AC is not defined by having an average value of 0 as indicated in 00:39, but due to the fact that polarity reverses, causing the current to alternate direction. Your depiction of NOT AC examples is incorrect.

[@jantrisko]

Furthermore, all displayed waveforms are AC. AC can also be non-periodic. And YES, the definition of AC depends on the change in current direction over time.

[@maruthupanditheniKaran60]

Really impressed your work and teaching the basic concepts in detail bro. Hats of to you Engineer ✌

[@orastojames7468]

This is amazing... greatly blessed with the mind of making Modern inverters, awesome!

[@Rocketman88002]

How does it work? Ask an engineer! Perfect explanation, right out of the classroom!

[@m_jackson]

1:35 "We all know that the frequency of the AC supply available in our homes is 60Hz" - whereas the vast majority of us in the world are actually supplied with 50Hz.

[@augustinn9544]

Am really learning

[@kunalverma3566]

He's talking about india.

[@zapole]

doesn't really matter whether it's 50 or 60Hz tbh...

[@ChrisLee-yr7tz]

@@zapole the frequency wasn't really the point tbh... I think it was more to with the US being ignorant of the rest of the world.

[@דניאלדניאל-ד1ז]

0:40 the 2 down right wave forms ARE A.C. by definition. The current changes its direction - Alternated Current; regardless to its average value.

[@lighteningwawa]

I was about to write that as well!

[@kylemccaffrey3298]

This was a really good supplemental on Inverters for me, thank you for creating the video! Additionally, I have found Toshiba has a fairly decent DC-AC document that also notes applications.

[@realkanavdhawan]

Can you share link to the document ?

[@tharanysivapaskaran8163]

thanks for this video. cleared all my doubts instantly. this is why you have gained such great followers indeed.

[@harikalatheeswaran9206]

Amazing video sir! Thank you so much for your amazing efforts. I humbly request you to make a video on Op-amps and their working. Thank you once again.

[@davidwillard7334]

THIS !! GUYS ! MAKES !! SHORT !! CIRCUITS !! WORK !! EXCELLENTLY !!

[@莫斯科-c5n]

hi, can you talk about the PWM theory?

[@dabipena684]

He literally does it in the video

[@kuroshzamani1775]

An Explanation which even a child could understand! Great Job.

[@adiprai2887]

I have watched three videos by Patrons and all of them have proven so brilliant. I salute the team. Keep going. Hats off!!

[@indridcold8433]

I made a Collpitts oscillator with a current amplifier. I got carried away and made a 2 kilowatt inverter for my antique Jeep. I had to install an extra battery in the old Jeep to get the current to stay constant.

[@TioAceite]

Where do you get the input waveforms for the comparators from? Where do the triangle and sine come from?

[@nerudito6042]

Pepe You can make these signals using active oscillators (operational amplifier with RLC elements) , or you can make it with a little program (coding a micro controller) that makes a sine or triangular wave in binary value and then you can send this signals to a DAC

[@musictrans]

good point

[@deansmith4752]

I liked the H bridge demonstration, for the output, I have found a common mode power choke effective at smoothing with a non polarised capacitor on the output. It is very hard to get a perfect sine wave but it is good enough for most appliances which will simply re-regulate it

[@ForanoDeBergemarc]

Unless I missed something, it says you need a sine and a triangle waves... ...to produce a sine wave :)

[@lefuturiste27]

Yes. Same with me. Wtf is going on

[@RaminHonary]

You have two sine waves: a control sine wave and the output sine wave. The output sine wave is a very high-power signal that can turn a motor, the control sine wave is a tiny signal coming from something like an oscillator, or in the case of an electric car, a circuit that is basically a glorified sound card connected to the car's computer. The power inverter is basically an amplifier, but optimized for a very narrow range of high-power output signals to turn electric motors, rather than to produce music in speakers. The computer's sound card can produce absolutely any control signal at all just like on your own home PC, and the control signal can even be programmed by a deep learning neural network (artificial intelligence) to produce the best possible control signal to immediately react from input signals coming from the car's sensors, which monitor acceleration, breaking, going around curves, tire slip, hitting bumps, etc.

[@vshankarful]

this gave lot of life to the imagination so far. was simple and clear

[@rajujoshi4768]

Sir thanks for making us understand in a good way. Now I can fully understand the function of the component needed for making inverter

[@shujaathussain7852]

Thank you Lesics for your graphical presentation of complex topics of invisible functions used in electronics circuitry. Good voiceover. Best wishes. From Pakistan.

[@mysticalpotato2110]

great explanation

[@vanessaflores7235]

Hi how are you

[@ammoniahuffers]

Only your video make me understand how sine wave inverters work! Thanks mate!

[@artmario]

I wish I could contribut with patreon , but a will spread this videos with all my felas.

[@cofishfinder7269]

What’s stopping you? You must not care that much...

[@varunentertainmentnetworks2670]

It would be nice if you create a video describing the inverters used in electric cars like Tesla Model S. How do they change the amplitude and frequency? Are they reasons for creating the RMF in the induction motor by achieving maximum magnetic field at two coils and two different instances?

[@ModelLights]

'Are they reasons by achieving maximum magnetic field ' Not sure if this is exactly your question, but probably related. Say you design an electromagnet, and say the full strength of fully on is 100%. If you try to run the electromagnet at 50% magnetic strength, it will take MORE than 50% power to do so, due to the inductance of the coil. IOW if you switch the coil at 50% duty cycle, the rise time due to the inductance of the coil and generating the magnetic field will cause a lot of losses, and you'll get noticeably less than 50% strength for that 50% power. IOOW it's inefficient to run magnetics at less than full power, there are extra losses in the switching for PWM for partial power. So full power in 1 or 2 coils out of many is much more efficient than trying to run partial power in more coils. It depends on exactly what you're doing, and the actual losses can be not that terrible due to other reasons. But for the electric cars they're trying to wring every last bit of energy use out of them, so they are probably going to the extra trouble of doing everything in this manner.

[@munirshareef-et6147]

Thank you guys. I really appreciate it You guys make me passed my quizzes

[@sathiyamoorthi7644]

Hello sir, I'm from india. I dont know english very well. Your explanation is very useful to me. Thank u

[@dv.singh97]

I never knew electricity was this much complicated!

[@Blafirelli]

If you find this complicated, expect quite a shock once you learn about computers :)

[@filanfyretracker]

@@Blafirelli I mean the way I learned about binary I just think of a CPU as a few billion light switches that turn on or off 4,000,000,000 times a second if running at 4ghz.