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    Warpverter

    Shoot through of 200ns can occur on start up with the OzInverter with a poor switch on proceedure and can give contact bounce on the IFB or TFB error condition. With the Warpverter, Tony has cleverly removed shoot through possibility by his design. I am now working with 'GASPO's 'anti shoot...
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    Warpverter

    Okay good to know. With the OzInverter we keep the windings reasonably tight on the winding counts, so we have reasonable headroom at about 44vdc to 62vdc of back charging the battery. I have used 3 main methods to control the raw back charging by controling the AC back charging GTI's. So for...
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    Warpverter

    Been thinking about the 'Warpverter' for use in ac coupleing and back charging to the batteries. ????
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    Warpverter

    DIY Inverters, Making the Toroid transformer. From the OzInverter book Chapter 4. The toroid is the most effiecent transformer, with only small losses compared to the standard EI square lanimated transformers. This Chapter 4 contains all the required info on making your own torroids for an...
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    Warpverter

    Totally agree with Warpspeed, getting the choke spot on is a black art, as there are so many varibles at play.
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    Warpverter

    I thought that some of you might want a good tech read about Inverters. It shows the development and general tech explanations of the PWM inverters and other concepts. I therefore hereby release my Chapter 14, Tech Info, as a PDF. Leslie Bryan, 03 Feb 2024..
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    Warpverter

    Here is big Ozinverter, toroid assembly is 42kg. And the standard OzInverter with a toroid of 30kg.
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    Warpverter

    Decent Choke Decent choke.......
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    Warpverter

    Looks like the old (about 2013) Power Jack power board. They were good up to about 3kw and a smallish toroid. Here is a photo of my design, based from the W7 PowerStar that 'Oztules' worked with. The Chinese used the W7 for the Later PowerJacks.
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    Warpverter

    Hi Tony, I have given up on supplying the 3 PCB's as Country's Customs have become a real stop on small PCB batches, especially those A4 double thick copper Power boards of mine. I have a few control boards, 50HZ and 60HZ, and cooling boards in stock, so i will offer them for the meantime...
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    Warpverter

    Hi Tony, Just read through this thread, and what a interesting read. I have attached a PDF file from the 'OzInverter' book Tech chapter, that you wrote up a few pages for me, about your clever design and build of the 'Warpverter'. I trust this is okay? Roger's 'Warpverter' looks real nice my...
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    Do You Ever Regret Going Off Grid?

    Okay... but honestly, .... We here in Normandy, France have been off Grid and On Grid for getting on 20 years. All distribution circuits have main Change over switches and we do not back supply to the Grid utilities, and even if we did the law states only 3kw. We kept the 9kw Grid connection...
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    The rack mounted Quattro 10,000VA

    Here is one of my 38kg / 83lb, 6KW run all day, complete toroid assemblies. Note .... the toroid has centre air flow. Primary winding is 50mm/2 cable.
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    The rack mounted Quattro 10,000VA

    Heat and convection need to be designed correctly. The toroids get hot when under load for some time, having a good forced air flow over them is a must. Normally i design big power inverters, 6Kw and upwards, with a push pull forced temp control fan system. Fans draw in air from the base of...
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    Direct to water heating.

    DC Water heaters at 4.8KW? , good luck on that one. I have had small 1kw DC heaters but just not robust enough for proper domestic use. All my stuff gets convertered to AC 230v for my 5KW water heaters. Far simpler in the long term and easy to repair and maintenance.
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    99.5% Efficient Inverter Design

    'NanoInverter' "Podia’s" nanoverter, Using his own PWM code, in a Arduino (ATMega 328) so the 8010 chip is not used......... ‘Poida’ , Peter Birtles, comments, ……. “The inverter uses a closed loop control design which takes a DC sample of the output AC voltage on the transformer secondary...
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    99.5% Efficient Inverter Design

    Hi tinyt, I trust you are okay? Warpspeed, Tony, just about to get the big mower out and its raining, oh! how very Normandy, France. Thought you might be interested, in regards copies of my book with your chapter in it about the very elegant design of Warpinverter of yours, as I am getting...
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    99.5% Efficient Inverter Design

    Hi Warpspeed, i trust you are well? Honest to gould, ...... folk build our stuff. then they blow it up with tinkering on a working Ozinverter. The latest is teenagers of families, opening the cabinet door and pressing the control board Re-set button on the PWM 8010 chip and while the inverter...
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    AC Coupled Offgrid

    You will probably require a buck converter from 48v to power these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-5V-12-24V-DVB01-Digital-Display-Voltage-Measurement-Discharge-Comparator/274018995586?hash=item3fccce0d82:m:mGBkC24PObImKa9u-YRwiEw
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    AC Coupled Offgrid

    Hi GV Solar, There are several Voltage comparators on the market, even Ebay. Its a preprogammable circuit that you set the reference voltage you wish to shut down at. For a 48v batteries say no more than 60v. And switch back on the GTI at say 52v, depends on how many GTI's you have connected...
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    Using a grid tie inverter off grid

    StartledP. Your original question …….. "Backfeeding into the battery via the inverter if excess power is present." If your Inverter is a H Bridge design, then yes back charging and taking the AC and turning it into DC will ocurr with power coming back from the GTI. To stop this I use voltage...
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    AC Coupled Offgrid

    SolarQueen is correct. And yes if your Inverter is a H bridge design then it can also backcharge to the batteries, from the GTI's. True AC coupling Warnings. The batteries will require some sort of monitoring so they do not get cooked from the back charging from the GTI's. I use a Battery...
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    The OzInverter Man from France.

    Hi, I thought I might join in here, and help others. This is a small farm with 9 separate buildings with there own mains 240vac distribution. We are a Sustainability and renewable energy creation project and been running for over 11 years. 3off 3.7m diameter Hugh piggott design wind turbines...
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