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Wind/Solar Electrics ???
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:09:10 -0500, Steve Spence wrote:
wrote: George Ghio wrote: Tell us why anyone would modify a sine wave. It's called "engineering," George. Nick Really... Wouldn't they rather modify a square wave to approximate a sine wave? What would be the point of modifying a sine wave, when a sine wave (or close approximation) is the required result? I hope you're not serious here. They don't make a sine wave and modify it, they make a rectangular wave and call it a "modified sine wave" because it passes enough tests for harmonics and crap that it will run most stuff, and they can get away with it. ;-) Anybody wanna do an FFT of various duty-cycle waveforms, and give us real THD information, and how that relates to power factor, and etc, and etc, and etc? The one inverter I've ever had my hands on the guts of made a waveform like this: ---- ---- ---- | | | | | | - - - - - - | | | | | etc. - ---- ---- And the regulator was just based on an ordinary rectifier - they didn't care about RMS, or it was scaled to get "close enough". But I do wonder, what does the harmonic content really do when you vary the duty cycle? Some years ago, in the USAF, I saw some pulses on a spectrum analyzer, and they had some really pretty envelopes. :-) Thanks, Rich |
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