Author Topic: Use of big electrolytic capacitors in a DC/AC mains inverter  (Read 1328 times)

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Offline abhishekkumar1902Topic starter

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I was browsing some low freq transformer based DC/AC mains inverter circuits (like 12v DC to 220v AC) online and found a couple of designs having these big chunky electrolytic capacitors. This may sound a foolish questions but any idea exactly on which rails they use these big caps and why is it needed when the inverter is already using a DC source to drive your inverter? I am sure they're not used in any low pass filter circuit as the value of cap is pretty big is what I saw.
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Re: Use of big electrolytic capacitors in a DC/AC mains inverter
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2017, 04:18:21 pm »
It is low impedance power source
 
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Re: Use of big electrolytic capacitors in a DC/AC mains inverter
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2017, 04:31:02 pm »
How does it helps?
 

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Re: Use of big electrolytic capacitors in a DC/AC mains inverter
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2017, 04:56:21 pm »
An inverter draws pulses of current from its supply; the capacitors supply those pulses, minimizing the effect of any stray inductance in the supply wiring.
 
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