Sinusoidal inverter using pulse width amplitude modulation

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, a technique of single-phase inverter pulse width-amplitude modulation is introduced. This technique is based on tap changer transformer that controls the amplitude of the output voltage. The DC voltage is applied on the primary side of the tap changer transformer with the help of a microcontroller through several semiconductor switches in sequential modality. The tap changer inverter has been analyzed, designed and simulated for four tap inverter using Proteus software. The LCL (low pass filter) is connected on the primary side of the transformer to generate sinusoidal output voltage. In hardware a tap changer inverter has been designed and implemented for four taps inverter. The microcontroller used is minipro, which produces command signal to the switches. The introduced topology has produced large number of levels with decreased total harmonics distortion (THD) in addition to a low cost with isolated multilevel inverter.