@FQD2N Extremely high current is available, and there are nasty frequencies involved. Touch the wrong thing and you might have 40A at 6kHz flowing through you. I bet that would hurt like the dickens and you probably wouldn't be able to let go.
As someone who worked on a grid connected solar inverter. You're right. Its even harder when you have to design it according to set standards. Minimal Harmonics and leakage current etc.
The amount effort you put into this video is astonishing, it makes me guilty for not supporting you other than watching. Sourcing the parts on your own must be such a real pain in the ass to do, and the fact you said _"it doesn't blow up"_ multiple times clearly tell us you must be very happy with your hard work! And oh, the principles of sPWM looks real similar to class D amplifier, only with some feedback inputs. Now I remember my silly idea years ago, using audio amplifier with step up transformer to make a sine wave inverter because back then, sine wave inverter was so expensive, it's literally unaffordable but today's sine wave inverter are getting cheaper and more affordable, there's no point in making your own with the risk it poses. Seriously, just get yourself a proper one.
Using an audio amplifier with step up transformer to make a sine wave inverter is something that can be done in a pinch and actually works fairly decently. Just don't expect a stable output. Oh and it also is very dangerous, obviously.
@@Electroblud It's a pretty poor one, the proper way to make an inverter is to step-up the DC bus voltage before feeding it to your inverter, that way you only need a high frequency SMPS transformer instead of a mains transformer. Also, if you're looking for electronic components, Arrow.com offers free shipping worldwide on any order. They just don't have everything in stock like digikey does.
I remember seeing a 3 phase 400Hz 220V power supply built using H&H audio amplifiers in a aircraft instrument factory during the 1980's. It was a very fine piece of equipment and gave a very impressive performance. The disadvantages were that its efficiency was abysmal and it was not very portable. It was mounted in its own 19" rack with heavy duty castors.
Back in 2006, I built my own 150 watts pure sine wave inverter using the PWM method. Instead of using a micro controller, U sed a simple comparator which compared a 6 KHz triangle wave with a 60 Hz sine wave generated by a wave shaper (6 diodes and 2 resistors). I have to say I was amazed by the result.
@@jamesjohnson5700 Depends on a lot of things. What input voltage, what output voltage, What type of what you want on output (sine or pseudo). A 10kw inverter may seem a big deal but you can already get 3kw inverters off the shelf at Walmart or a large hardware store.
@@jamesjohnson5700 You'll have to give more detailed specs if you want something from me. Also, I can't exactly give you a detailed schematics in a comment section.
@@mathiasbackof4993 yes we don't stop cheering you until you stop working so hard to teach people electronics which is hopefully never because this channel is asweome :)
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Hi! Nice video as always! But i think you used the wrong pcb for the thing you're trying to do! This pcb was made for the version where you put 400V in the board from a different source. You used the same compoments for the version with the iron core. The IRF840 are high voltage, low current mosfets with a BIG RDSon so thats why you had so much idle consumption. Try using the IRF3205 like they said in the datasheet with 8mOhm RDSon and bigger current, even in parallel! Also the transformer should be 8V to 220V and not 12-220 :D
That was a lot of work, there you have my thumb up... Some time ago I made my own inverter but with a half bridge, and it worked like a charm. Thank you Scott! A lot of knowledge in 12 min
20W is actually quite good, the multi-thousand dollar pure sine wave off-grid inverters often have standby losses of 30-40W continuous. The main reason being transformer losses and running the control circuits. I would be very interested in this module for a 48V or higher input application, really just a question of the right MOSFETs and filter design at that point.
I designed my inverter system from scratch and generated spwm using PIC microcontroller. I had no load power of around 40W and had been researching if that is too much because I feel my MOSFET and transformer heats up more than required. I switched at 18kHz
Chinese doesn’t translate well to English. It’s fundamentally different. You can make a translation just fine for the words, but not necessarily for the meaning behind them. That’s always an issue. 🤷♂️
Im Chinese and I have built sinusoidal inverter before, not with this chip but with stm32 microcontroller. I can do the datasheet translation for you. Perhaps one day i should develop an open-source sinusoidal inverter and share it with everyone!
You can import any PDF document into Google Docs and then translate it from Chinese to another language, the results are actually astonishing, very good. It can of course export to PDF as well. You can’t use Google’s online translator due to a size limit they imposed, but there is no such limit for Google Docs.
Hopefully your video will influence all Chinese electronics manufacturers to provide properly written, English manuals. It will benefit them as well as us and I DO love electronic modules that come from China! So many to choose from and so inexpensive. And they usually work!
When doing this pwm to an H bridge you do not need to feed pwm to both sides of the bridge, you can feed pwm to one side and just turn on the other. Most ebike speed controllers work that way just for a bit of info
great info Scott, thanks for shedding light on spwm. you could always buy a commercial that does everything well for us but having building on your own, gives us a way to customize the thing anyway we want
The chip on the EGS002 board has a variable frequency operation mode as well as a fixed V/f option to accomodate the reduction of inductive reactance as frequency increases. I think that this can be used to create a single phase VFD (230V 50Hz in) that should be able to be used with single phase induction motors to enable speed control. This is on my backburner at the moment, so anyone feel free to try it out!
One suggestion to decrease idle consumption, add some inductance in series with transformer primary, other wise the current through the capacitor will be too high. I have done some experimenting with these exact boards :) I fully agree that they...work, but are not very "ready for use".
Hey Scott, the circuit shown on the EGS002 document is for converting *400V DC* to AC, so there may be some issues with your method of using the filtered hbridge output into a transformer.. Did you get any rough efficiency calculations when you were powering the lightbulb?
Most inverters step low voltage up to 400V then use full MOSFET bridge to create 240VAC from that 400V. This improves the efficiency and size as transformers work at 20kHz to generate 400V and conversion to 240VAC only needs simple filtering. Example: I have a 3000W Chinese sine wave inverter which has a no load power of around 10W
ahmed fawad can i question for you ? I am building inverter 12vdc-220vac using egp1000w and gs002 make by Chine. This is the same video above. But output vac only 120vac, i am using tranformer 7.5vac to 220vac and irf840. Please, can you help me? Share for me your project. Thanks so much.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to use a controlled-speed spinning magnet to generate a pure sine wave reference voltage? I know from a mechanical sense it would be more complex, but it may be a valuable trade off to make a perfect wave. I’m suggesting a VERY small motor/magnet. Purely for the wave shape. Thoughts?
Well the problem with the wave isn't because of the low current signal. It's because of the nonlinear characteristics of the inductor, the transformer, and the load. So, for example, in an exceptionally simple case, a rectifier draws more current when it gets to the peak of the sine wave, which brings the voltage down (mainly due to resistance upstream in the power path, like the inductor and the mosfets) only at the peak and gets us that sine with the flat bit at the top. I actually really like your thinking there, though. Largely because I thought of a similar thing a while ago. There do exist rotary converters, which is basically just either a DC motor spinning a single-phase generator, or a single phase motor spinning a 3-phase generator. The problem with these is that they're big, heavy, loud, but most importantly, they constantly consume current even at no load. They're good for some uses, like if you need 3 phase power when you only have single phase, and you only run it when you're running a big tool or something so you don't care about its inefficiency because it's not running for very long. But inverters are much better for general purpose use, which is why they get used so much. I believe they're also more efficient even at full load. You get a lot of eddy current losses in the big steel plates you need for a mains frequency transformer/motor. Inverters step up voltage at much higher frequencies (10s-100s of kHz), which means a much smaller transformer -> less steel -> less eddy current losses -> more efficiency. The trick to making a good sine wave with the inverter is all in the filtering. Picking the right combination of inductors and capacitors to balance the cutoff & resonance, good high frequency filtering while not suppressing the fundamental frequency that you want to keep, an also keeping component cost and size in mind. High current, high inductance, low frequency inductors get real big real fast. And since they use thick copper wires, they get expensive real fast too. And you can't use the advantage of the high frequency switching needing a smaller core like we did with the transformer because mains needs to be low frequency. This, by the way, is why cheaper inverters have more THD. They use cheaper components that don't filter as well (and probably spent less R&D money as well) so you get more harmonics. I'd say likely the most expensive parts of any inverter are the filter components.
The most effective one I've made only created the sine after bumping the voltage to 320V with a DC-DC boost converter. This negates the whole problem of having stupid lossy transformers and difficult feedback loops. It has it's own disadvantages, like high frequency, high voltage switching and a high voltage DC supply (more dangerous than ac) but it was hella efficient and didn't care about load attached
I can read Chinese and as I can see from the manual, it requires very complicated tweaking. You were EXTREMELY lucky to have worked it out without manual just by trying, risking and erring, and still got away without being electrocuted or have your lab burnt to ground :::)))) Your takeaway is just to the point....never try anything without a manual. I do cross fingers for those who are also trying this.... high power inverters are impossible for DIYers without 1-2 year EE college training.
The "ASIC" could well be a microcontroller with the firmware in ROM. Definitely the ATMEGA in Arduino will do the job as well. In fact it does nothing else than the table generation you tried yourself, but instead of directly feeding to the counter, these numbers get multiplied by an amplitude variable. This variable comes from sampling the output voltage at the moment when it is supposed to be at its peak, comparing it with the desired peak value and then adjusting the amplitude variable till the measured voltage matches the target. The ADC is scheduled so at most times it measures the current, once the 20ms cycle it replaces one sample by voltage measurement and few times per second by the thermistor measurement. What makes me to think it is actually a generic microcontroller with custom firmware and not a true ASIC is how much of auxiliary analog circuit it needs around (not talking about the MOSFET predrivers, but really about signal processing within 5V rails), which could way easier be integrated onto the ASIC chip, so saved the BOM cost if it were truly designed as an ASIC. But all the circuit around really suggest there was no dedicated IC design involved, only programming of an existing micro. Which makes perfect sense, as designing an IC is VERY expensive and you have to sell millions of them to get that money back on savings compare to using some standard MCU. Don't think there are that much inverters sold to justify a fully custom IC for that...
See alot of comments, and no where do I see a suggestion for heat sink and cooling of FETs most inverters if not all will shut down when overheating and have an led that indicates low voltage supply from source or to much draw heating up circuit, thee led will flash before shutting down completely. You need to finish this up,,, try heatsinking the FETs and fan. We know resistance changes as temperature goes up and so do the electrical engineers.
Hi Scott Thanks for a great video....... I'm using the EGS002 and it's working fine..... IF you build your own board. But the most expensive part is the toroid (transformer). A bigger toroid=more power. Btw, try to use as high voltage as possible. Then you decrease the amps, because the AMPS is the backside of low voltage. No (normal) wire can hold 100A continuously at 12volt, but just by increase the voltage to 24volt, the amps will decrease by 2x. And at 48volts you have "only" 25amps running in the cable to the battery. Thats why the Chinese circuit shows 400V DC. Because they can keep the cost down on wires and transformers aso.
@@timm3802 can I have a copy of your designed inverter? I want to build one with only small power rating like 200-300W for lights backup only uses and phone/laptop chargers.
That would really help, here is the chinese datasheet. datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/968003/EGmicro/EGP1000W/1 Using Google, it suggest the board can either be used with a high voltage input or with a low voltage and a transformer. In the latter case, I thought you need a small second transformer on the output side to provide an isolated low voltage voltage to the control board but I couldnt see that in the video......
Thank you for the level of details you went into, this solidly confirmed that it's better for me to work for a few days and buy and inverter rather than making one :)
I used this driver board, EG8010. I completed my graduation project. However, it seems that my version is different from yours. My version requires a DC of about 400V. After the H-bridge, the output is accurate AC220V.
The problem with your inverter is that if you use 12V to 230V transformer, the peak voltages it can produce are only 230Vpk, while mains peak voltage is 325V. And if we divide 230 by 1.414 (square root of 2), it is around 162V as your oscilloscope showed. So if you wanted 230Vrms, you would have to use around 17V
To increase efficiency you should take another point of view. For first boost 12V DC to around 320V DC and then modulate it to get the proper sine wave. This is how it's done in many modern inverters. Anyway, greetings from Poland. Keep doing great job.
Great video. I think it's worth pursuing this project further , if your comfortable working with mains voltages :0) These things are particularly dangerous as there is very little protection for you on the output. No earth leakage is going to trip if you accidentally tough the output L and N. That can ruin your day... You can move your LC filter to the output of the transformer. That way is does not have to handle the high currents you will see on the primary. The large transformer inductance will also naturally act as a filter to the high frequency pwm waveform. The H-bridge circuit can also only generate a "PEAK" voltage equal to the supply voltage , so a 220/12V transformer will only be able to deliver just over 150Vrms. I think 1000W is a bit ambitious for a 12V system. Do-able , but your primary currents are going to be very high. You would be better off at 24 or 48V.
Hey man nice video, but I thing at the beginning of the video u said Spwm is used for obtaining pure sinusoidal wave but I it's only used for controlling the inverter's output ,sine wave is obtained by using filters correct me if I am worng
You did everything wrong! 1. Make High frequency (27-100KHz) step up inverter with pulse transformer DC 310V for 220v output 2. Use this Sin - wave full bridge to output perfect sin wave with regulated voltage. No bulky transformers needed.
That is the cheap way...that also blows up easily. Seriously, even the expensive ones, like Sinergex keep blowing up. I have repaired many. A full bridge + 50Hz transformer can make a robust inverter with nice output. One thing though, the 1000W board has a input current monitoring circuit that causes a rather high voltage drop, this is not practical with e.g. 12V input.
FFS bro you got some knowledge with electronics and talks to ......you a legend ....keep it up
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The 50hz transformers should be banned. Smps 500khz-1mhz 12v to 300v dc, pwm Into h-bridge, filter, feedback and you no longer lose 50% of the energy in winding resistance and FeSi core eddies.
I am power electronic engineer... Well, let me tell you the efficiency of 50Hz xfmr is >98% for distribution and transmission system While, typical smps operate at around 50-100kHz, of course there is some operating at 500k-1000kHz...but you will pay 3-4x the typical sms Fyi, I was working on wide array of projects: 500kHz converter, solid state transformer, grid converter
Very cool project. This is what I was interested a long time ago. You can ask your Chinese viewer to translate the manual, should be a very simple task.
This is really interesting to see your approach, I was just working on my own version of this last month but I got busy and shelved it for a while. Maybe now I'll try to finish it.
This is actually insanely simple. It just works like an AM radio It modulates the 50 Hz sine wave in a different higher frequency So the carrier wave gets modulated and cleaned up with a low - pass filter which leaves you with the perfect sine wave Which then gets transformed up to 230V and voila you got an pure sine wave inverter
dear! you can use "office lens" to translate the manual. simply takes the picture and convert it into English language and save in desired document format.
I just ordered a 3000 watt pure sine for 170 dollars from China. I just hope it gets here. How good it is , is not that important to me for 170 dollars. If it lasts me one year ill be happy.
Amazing video, as always. I really love your channel and content and I learn lots from you. Thank you, have a good day/evening/night and keep it up! :)
@GreatScott! There are three filter electrolytic capacitors (C1, C2, C3) and two decoupling capacitors (C14, C15) on the on-board power supply bus. The withstand voltage of the capacitor should be selected according to the power supply voltage. If working in high frequency mode and the power supply bus voltage is (330V~400V), select 450V withstand voltage. If working in industrial frequency mode and the power supply bus voltage is 48V, the capacitor withstand voltage should be 63V. The electrolytic capacitor capacity is selected according to the actual system power. Generally, the high frequency mode should be greater than 47uF, and the power frequency mode should be greater than 470uF. The decoupling capacitor is generally 0.1uF CBB capacitor, and the withstand voltage must be greater than the power supply bus voltage. If the withstand voltage of the capacitor is less than the bus voltage of the power supply, the capacitor may explode!
Regarding the waveform at 10:30: It looks like your LED lamp uses a full bridge rectifier with a smoothing capacitor. The voltage at the transformer drops very hard while it's loading the capacitor, so the output just seems to have a high internal resistance. I guess that's because you used a transformer with 230V for the input, but just hooked it up "backwards".
Yo Scott. I AM MAKING an inverter with mains output soon. so yeah, driven by Arduino to generate SPWM. I will include a feedback system. It's actually simple. All you need is a full bridge inverter that generates SPWM and analog components that smooth it out into a sine wave. Finally, a transformer to boost it. I will leave out the transformer until I get a good sine wave, though.
I am using this modules properly after some Engineering modifications. You need to modify the transformer. The turn ratio will be 6.5 to 240 ac instead of 12/220v conventional transformer for 12V battery. And for more noload efficiency you need to add 40~100 uH power inductor in series of primary coil. After all it is a good spwm modules with cheap cost.
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Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of inverters. They are hard to make properly, and mains voltage ones are frickin' dangerous too.
Well said.
But it would be pretty great if there was a good open hardware design for a 1000-2000W 12V to 220V inverter around.
@FQD2N Extremely high current is available, and there are nasty frequencies involved. Touch the wrong thing and you might have 40A at 6kHz flowing through you. I bet that would hurt like the dickens and you probably wouldn't be able to let go.
As someone who worked on a grid connected solar inverter. You're right. Its even harder when you have to design it according to set standards. Minimal Harmonics and leakage current etc.
@FQD2N well what if you are electrically grounded?
I want ElectroBoom to do a video on a DIY Pure Sine Wave Inverter, so that I can see how badly this thing can blow up.
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!
😀😀😀
Me too... Lol
FUulBriDgeRectIFiyAR
That would be grand
The amount effort you put into this video is astonishing, it makes me guilty for not supporting you other than watching. Sourcing the parts on your own must be such a real pain in the ass to do, and the fact you said _"it doesn't blow up"_ multiple times clearly tell us you must be very happy with your hard work!
And oh, the principles of sPWM looks real similar to class D amplifier, only with some feedback inputs. Now I remember my silly idea years ago, using audio amplifier with step up transformer to make a sine wave inverter because back then, sine wave inverter was so expensive, it's literally unaffordable but today's sine wave inverter are getting cheaper and more affordable, there's no point in making your own with the risk it poses. Seriously, just get yourself a proper one.
Using an audio amplifier with step up transformer to make a sine wave inverter is something that can be done in a pinch and actually works fairly decently. Just don't expect a stable output.
Oh and it also is very dangerous, obviously.
That's why I never do it :-)
@@Electroblud can be isolated.
@@Electroblud It's a pretty poor one, the proper way to make an inverter is to step-up the DC bus voltage before feeding it to your inverter, that way you only need a high frequency SMPS transformer instead of a mains transformer. Also, if you're looking for electronic components, Arrow.com offers free shipping worldwide on any order. They just don't have everything in stock like digikey does.
I remember seeing a 3 phase 400Hz 220V power supply built using H&H audio amplifiers in a aircraft instrument factory during the 1980's. It was a very fine piece of equipment and gave a very impressive performance. The disadvantages were that its efficiency was abysmal and it was not very portable. It was mounted in its own 19" rack with heavy duty castors.
Back in 2006, I built my own 150 watts pure sine wave inverter using the PWM method. Instead of using a micro controller, U sed a simple comparator which compared a 6 KHz triangle wave with a 60 Hz sine wave generated by a wave shaper (6 diodes and 2 resistors). I have to say I was amazed by the result.
great idea.
Hi What do I need to build 10k watt inverter?
@@jamesjohnson5700 Depends on a lot of things. What input voltage, what output voltage, What type of what you want on output (sine or pseudo).
A 10kw inverter may seem a big deal but you can already get 3kw inverters off the shelf at Walmart or a large hardware store.
@@francoisleveille409 I wanna build my own with high & low voltage protection & can the input & output be the same I want sine
@@jamesjohnson5700 You'll have to give more detailed specs if you want something from me. Also, I can't exactly give you a detailed schematics in a comment section.
Well....thanks for taking one for the team, a lot of hoop jumping in this one.
And the technical term of the day: "it doesn't blow up"
Cheers
that's why I always have a "blow up" filament lamp in series with the power supply of what I'm testing.
Our nice German engineer is back with another asweome video!
Oh stop it
@@greatscottlab Im never gonna stop it : - )
@@mathiasbackof4993 yes
we don't stop cheering you until you stop working so hard to teach people electronics
which is hopefully never because this channel is asweome :)
I just became a patreon! This young man gives so much and I have learned something from every single video. He deserves all the support we can give him to keep this high quality content coming. I challenge the other 950k+ subscribers to become patreon and support this great content!
Thank you GreatScott!
You're welcome and thanks for the support.
Great video as always! Also, I would totally be happy to translate any Chinese manuals into English for you and your viewers. Keep up the good work!
Hi! Nice video as always! But i think you used the wrong pcb for the thing you're trying to do! This pcb was made for the version where you put 400V in the board from a different source. You used the same compoments for the version with the iron core. The IRF840 are high voltage, low current mosfets with a BIG RDSon so thats why you had so much idle consumption. Try using the IRF3205 like they said in the datasheet with 8mOhm RDSon and bigger current, even in parallel! Also the transformer should be 8V to 220V and not 12-220 :D
Please use Chinese if you want to communicate with him
@@antonf.9278 对不起
Now I understand
Thanks
Are you Estonian?
@@markusantonov6373 İf you're talking to me, no 😁
8:15 first time he gets angry on video.
No, he got angry when he built a Bluetooth ceiling speaker. "I destroyed the receiver because I am such a *genius* ".
@@chargedsupercap2270 He called things bullshit multiple times before aswell.
@@jm036 But he never got this angry lol
Ambilight part 3.
@@elek101 exactly.
You have a lot of Chinese fans and we can help you translate the manual.
其实我们阅读英文的datasheet的时候也很痛苦的。
That was a lot of work, there you have my thumb up... Some time ago I made my own inverter but with a half bridge, and it worked like a charm. Thank you Scott! A lot of knowledge in 12 min
Thanks for the feedback :-)
20W is actually quite good, the multi-thousand dollar pure sine wave off-grid inverters often have standby losses of 30-40W continuous. The main reason being transformer losses and running the control circuits. I would be very interested in this module for a 48V or higher input application, really just a question of the right MOSFETs and filter design at that point.
I just read your comment after making a post something similar about inverter sizes and power drains
I designed my inverter system from scratch and generated spwm using PIC microcontroller. I had no load power of around 40W and had been researching if that is too much because I feel my MOSFET and transformer heats up more than required. I switched at 18kHz
I use Google translate with the camera of my phone to translate chinese.. which works quite well! ;)
You can use Chrome to do it on the webpage too
And you will get very strange language with it. Because chinese hieroglyphics are overcomplicated
questoin: type the translate languege
Just use the "translate document" feature of google translate. Makes life much easier
Chinese doesn’t translate well to English. It’s fundamentally different. You can make a translation just fine for the words, but not necessarily for the meaning behind them. That’s always an issue. 🤷♂️
Im Chinese and I have built sinusoidal inverter before, not with this chip but with stm32 microcontroller. I can do the datasheet translation for you. Perhaps one day i should develop an open-source sinusoidal inverter and share it with everyone!
Rikka0_0 we can gather ideas,and make an open source project,maybe..
You can import any PDF document into Google Docs and then translate it from Chinese to another language, the results are actually astonishing, very good. It can of course export to PDF as well. You can’t use Google’s online translator due to a size limit they imposed, but there is no such limit for Google Docs.
Looks like there's a big value in learning Chinese, considering they're the biggest source of electronic components these days.
Most of the time I have no idea what your talking about but I enjoy your videos. Thanks for helping me to learn
Awsome Video Dear!
Good good
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Weird
Hopefully your video will influence all Chinese electronics manufacturers to provide properly written, English manuals. It will benefit them as well as us and I DO love electronic modules that come from China! So many to choose from and so inexpensive. And they usually work!
When doing this pwm to an H bridge you do not need to feed pwm to both sides of the bridge, you can feed pwm to one side and just turn on the other. Most ebike speed controllers work that way just for a bit of info
You completely unmounted my doubts about SPWMs and Inverters in less than 5 minutes.
All Hail Great Scott!
8:23 FULL BRIDGE...
#FULLBRIDGERECTIFIER
*presses echo pedal* "FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER"
Expecting him says Brückengleichrichter :D
*RECTIFIER*
Rectumfrier!!!
great info Scott, thanks for shedding light on spwm. you could always buy a commercial that does everything well for us but having building on your own, gives us a way to customize the thing anyway we want
The chip on the EGS002 board has a variable frequency operation mode as well as a fixed V/f option to accomodate the reduction of inductive reactance as frequency increases. I think that this can be used to create a single phase VFD (230V 50Hz in) that should be able to be used with single phase induction motors to enable speed control.
This is on my backburner at the moment, so anyone feel free to try it out!
Will do. I deals with vfd controllers too.
I thought that chip could be used to control motors.
Good point.
@@olandorobertson2510 any progress ??
Your Reverse engineering electronics skills are Insane.
One suggestion to decrease idle consumption, add some inductance in series with transformer primary, other wise the current through the capacitor will be too high. I have done some experimenting with these exact boards :) I fully agree that they...work, but are not very "ready for use".
Your knowledge is incredible, and your soldering technique, well....
Hey Scott, the circuit shown on the EGS002 document is for converting *400V DC* to AC, so there may be some issues with your method of using the filtered hbridge output into a transformer..
Did you get any rough efficiency calculations when you were powering the lightbulb?
Most inverters step low voltage up to 400V then use full MOSFET bridge to create 240VAC from that 400V. This improves the efficiency and size as transformers work at 20kHz to generate 400V and conversion to 240VAC only needs simple filtering. Example: I have a 3000W Chinese sine wave inverter which has a no load power of around 10W
I have used EGS002 in my inverters and it works very fine.
I have been using it in line conditioners also
ahmed fawad can i question for you ? I am building inverter 12vdc-220vac using egp1000w and gs002 make by Chine. This is the same video above. But output vac only 120vac, i am using tranformer 7.5vac to 220vac and irf840. Please, can you help me? Share for me your project. Thanks so much.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to use a controlled-speed spinning magnet to generate a pure sine wave reference voltage? I know from a mechanical sense it would be more complex,
but it may be a valuable trade off to make a perfect wave. I’m suggesting a VERY small motor/magnet. Purely for the wave shape. Thoughts?
Well the problem with the wave isn't because of the low current signal. It's because of the nonlinear characteristics of the inductor, the transformer, and the load. So, for example, in an exceptionally simple case, a rectifier draws more current when it gets to the peak of the sine wave, which brings the voltage down (mainly due to resistance upstream in the power path, like the inductor and the mosfets) only at the peak and gets us that sine with the flat bit at the top.
I actually really like your thinking there, though. Largely because I thought of a similar thing a while ago. There do exist rotary converters, which is basically just either a DC motor spinning a single-phase generator, or a single phase motor spinning a 3-phase generator. The problem with these is that they're big, heavy, loud, but most importantly, they constantly consume current even at no load. They're good for some uses, like if you need 3 phase power when you only have single phase, and you only run it when you're running a big tool or something so you don't care about its inefficiency because it's not running for very long. But inverters are much better for general purpose use, which is why they get used so much. I believe they're also more efficient even at full load. You get a lot of eddy current losses in the big steel plates you need for a mains frequency transformer/motor. Inverters step up voltage at much higher frequencies (10s-100s of kHz), which means a much smaller transformer -> less steel -> less eddy current losses -> more efficiency.
The trick to making a good sine wave with the inverter is all in the filtering. Picking the right combination of inductors and capacitors to balance the cutoff & resonance, good high frequency filtering while not suppressing the fundamental frequency that you want to keep, an also keeping component cost and size in mind. High current, high inductance, low frequency inductors get real big real fast. And since they use thick copper wires, they get expensive real fast too. And you can't use the advantage of the high frequency switching needing a smaller core like we did with the transformer because mains needs to be low frequency.
This, by the way, is why cheaper inverters have more THD. They use cheaper components that don't filter as well (and probably spent less R&D money as well) so you get more harmonics. I'd say likely the most expensive parts of any inverter are the filter components.
One of the best tech/electronics channels in YT, 👍😍, as usual
The most effective one I've made only created the sine after bumping the voltage to 320V with a DC-DC boost converter. This negates the whole problem of having stupid lossy transformers and difficult feedback loops. It has it's own disadvantages, like high frequency, high voltage switching and a high voltage DC supply (more dangerous than ac) but it was hella efficient and didn't care about load attached
that is the way to do it,my 2 inverters of2500/5000 watts are like that.
Wish if we had content like this in our college era.
2:43 What a perfectly drawn sine O_O
Yes wow
I can read Chinese and as I can see from the manual, it requires very complicated tweaking. You were EXTREMELY lucky to have worked it out without manual just by trying, risking and erring, and still got away without being electrocuted or have your lab burnt to ground :::)))) Your takeaway is just to the point....never try anything without a manual. I do cross fingers for those who are also trying this.... high power inverters are impossible for DIYers without 1-2 year EE college training.
The "ASIC" could well be a microcontroller with the firmware in ROM. Definitely the ATMEGA in Arduino will do the job as well.
In fact it does nothing else than the table generation you tried yourself, but instead of directly feeding to the counter, these numbers get multiplied by an amplitude variable.
This variable comes from sampling the output voltage at the moment when it is supposed to be at its peak, comparing it with the desired peak value and then adjusting the amplitude variable till the measured voltage matches the target.
The ADC is scheduled so at most times it measures the current, once the 20ms cycle it replaces one sample by voltage measurement and few times per second by the thermistor measurement.
What makes me to think it is actually a generic microcontroller with custom firmware and not a true ASIC is how much of auxiliary analog circuit it needs around (not talking about the MOSFET predrivers, but really about signal processing within 5V rails), which could way easier be integrated onto the ASIC chip, so saved the BOM cost if it were truly designed as an ASIC. But all the circuit around really suggest there was no dedicated IC design involved, only programming of an existing micro.
Which makes perfect sense, as designing an IC is VERY expensive and you have to sell millions of them to get that money back on savings compare to using some standard MCU. Don't think there are that much inverters sold to justify a fully custom IC for that...
See alot of comments, and no where do I see a suggestion for heat sink and cooling of FETs most inverters if not all will shut down when overheating and have an led that indicates low voltage supply from source or to much draw heating up circuit, thee led will flash before shutting down completely. You need to finish this up,,, try heatsinking the FETs and fan. We know resistance changes as temperature goes up and so do the electrical engineers.
Hi Scott
Thanks for a great video.......
I'm using the EGS002 and it's working fine..... IF you build your own board. But the most expensive part is the toroid (transformer).
A bigger toroid=more power. Btw, try to use as high voltage as possible. Then you decrease the amps, because the AMPS is the backside of low voltage. No (normal) wire can hold 100A continuously at 12volt, but just by increase the voltage to 24volt, the amps will decrease by 2x. And at 48volts you have "only" 25amps running in the cable to the battery.
Thats why the Chinese circuit shows 400V DC. Because they can keep the cost down on wires and transformers aso.
Tim, can you share a schematic for a inverter?
@@ГеоргиКовачев-г4к Yes no problem. But i don't know where to share it...any suggestions ?
@@timm3802 can I have a copy of your designed inverter? I want to build one with only small power rating like 200-300W for lights backup only uses and phone/laptop chargers.
Tim M may be on my email?
kovachev.g90@gmail.bg
@@ГеоргиКовачев-г4к no problem, I will mail it to you.
Maybe I can help you translate it? Am I the only Chinese subscriber?
no，我也是
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That would really help, here is the chinese datasheet.
datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/968003/EGmicro/EGP1000W/1
Using Google, it suggest the board can either be used with a high voltage input or with a low voltage and a transformer. In the latter case, I thought you need a small second transformer on the output side to provide an isolated low voltage voltage to the control board but I couldnt see that in the video......
Please do sir
no
I can translate the manual for you if you will make a video about SSTC one day
Thank you for the level of details you went into, this solidly confirmed that it's better for me to work for a few days and buy and inverter rather than making one :)
It is pretty good translation. You just need to do some shots of vodka and then you will understand everything.
Great video. I can't understand how you can make a video every week. This must have been so much work. Thank you. Greetings. NicoD
I used this driver board, EG8010. I completed my graduation project. However, it seems that my version is different from yours. My version requires a DC of about 400V. After the H-bridge, the output is accurate AC220V.
GreatScott gets pissed! the man the myth the legend lol great vid!
The problem with your inverter is that if you use 12V to 230V transformer, the peak voltages it can produce are only 230Vpk,
while mains peak voltage is 325V. And if we divide 230 by 1.414 (square root of 2), it is around 162V as your oscilloscope showed. So if you wanted 230Vrms, you would have to use around 17V
To increase efficiency you should take another point of view. For first boost 12V DC to around 320V DC and then modulate it to get the proper sine wave. This is how it's done in many modern inverters. Anyway, greetings from Poland. Keep doing great job.
Great video.
I think it's worth pursuing this project further , if your comfortable working with mains voltages :0)
These things are particularly dangerous as there is very little protection for you on the output. No earth leakage is going to trip if you accidentally
tough the output L and N. That can ruin your day...
You can move your LC filter to the output of the transformer. That way is does not have to handle the high currents you will see on the primary.
The large transformer inductance will also naturally act as a filter to the high frequency pwm waveform.
The H-bridge circuit can also only generate a "PEAK" voltage equal to the supply voltage , so a 220/12V transformer will only be able to
deliver just over 150Vrms.
I think 1000W is a bit ambitious for a 12V system. Do-able , but your primary currents are going to be very high.
You would be better off at 24 or 48V.
Hey man nice video, but I thing at the beginning of the video u said Spwm is used for obtaining pure sinusoidal wave but I it's only used for controlling the inverter's output ,sine wave is obtained by using filters correct me if I am worng
Make a video about jfets or class a amplifiers!!! Thanks for the awesome video!
It is on my to do list
Ooh, good idea! It would be awesome an electronic basics on class a, b, ab amplifiers!
@@greatscottlab yeeeesss!!! Thanks! I really like your videos!
Great as usual Scott...regards from Italy.
You did everything wrong!
1. Make High frequency (27-100KHz) step up inverter with pulse transformer DC 310V for 220v output
2. Use this Sin - wave full bridge to output perfect sin wave with regulated voltage.
No bulky transformers needed.
That is the cheap way...that also blows up easily. Seriously, even the expensive ones, like Sinergex keep blowing up. I have repaired many. A full bridge + 50Hz transformer can make a robust inverter with nice output. One thing though, the 1000W board has a input current monitoring circuit that causes a rather high voltage drop, this is not practical with e.g. 12V input.
Chinese products with a proper English manual? LOL Yea right!! Really like your videos. So much good info in them.
please on SMPS
Give you a thumb for your amazing skill and Chinese subtitle, thanks for translating (even thou I'm a layman of electronics)
8:15 Funniest thing in your channel in past 2 years lol
Thanks for your video! BTW, as a Chinese viewer, I could help you translate Chinese data sheets to English or even German.
can u show to do hud glasses ?
Not sure if I am that interested in such a subject.
It was your mistake. It has peak to peak voltages of 230V, but for 230V RMS, you need an 8.5V to 230V transformer.
A French watchin an english video, which use frequently chinese.... Languageception -_-
Considering he is a native German I would say that's super languageception
@@4.0.4 Cakes ?? Why ? xD Bread, ok, frog legs, ok, but cakes.... Why :)
@@4.0.4 i agree with the kebab thing. But that's a bad part of french gastronomy... 😉
FFS bro you got some knowledge with electronics and talks to ......you a legend ....keep it up
The 50hz transformers should be banned.
Smps 500khz-1mhz 12v to 300v dc, pwm Into h-bridge, filter, feedback and you no longer lose 50% of the energy in winding resistance and FeSi core eddies.
I am power electronic engineer...
Well, let me tell you the efficiency of 50Hz xfmr is >98% for distribution and transmission system
While, typical smps operate at around 50-100kHz, of course there is some operating at 500k-1000kHz...but you will pay 3-4x the typical sms
Fyi, I was working on wide array of projects: 500kHz converter, solid state transformer, grid converter
Very cool project. This is what I was interested a long time ago. You can ask your Chinese viewer to translate the manual, should be a very simple task.
This is why inverter are expensive...
I'm not sure why, but I really like this guys handwriting.
Might be because mine sucks so much.
See?
without decent manual you still done it
i with right manual
still exploded
i like this chanel becase every video he always explain with drawing manually.
Maybe a Chinese viewer who knows English well can chime in here and translate that manual for you.
I have a chinese friend who helped me lot on this chinese stuff, go make a friend but make sure he understands english well :)
I'll go simpler way ....DC motor ..coupled to simple AC generator ....voila ... pure sine wave inverter ...lol
That is the best way no fuzz:))
And call it = noisy hardware pswi 😂
Yeah it will work but with considerable energy loss , the following method show in video have negligible energy loss
This is really interesting to see your approach, I was just working on my own version of this last month but I got busy and shelved it for a while. Maybe now I'll try to finish it.
*I will develop a Doremon anywhere door and steal your oscilloscope*
Alex Mustang 😂😂😂😂☹️☹️ The good old doraemon reminds me a lot, do you know a site where we can see the anime
Now i feel the need to design a good working, safe, and reliable and cheap inverter XD
*slightly salty*
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8 Hours ago!?!?!?
It must be from the dried tears shed trying to understand the Chinese data sheet
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This is actually insanely simple.
It just works like an AM radio
It modulates the 50 Hz sine wave in a different higher frequency
So the carrier wave gets modulated and cleaned up with a low - pass filter which leaves you with the perfect sine wave
Which then gets transformed up to 230V and voila you got an pure sine wave inverter
マニュアルが如何に必要かと言う貴重なビデオでした。
A greate project can be a microinverter DIY for the photovoltaic panels :-)
Thanks a lot for the video
WHat about skipping the chinese controller board and all that stuff and just making your own inverter 100% from your own design > ?
I know the video is over a year old, but i would love to see you design an inverter based off of the Egs002, i love the stuff you design
dear! you can use "office lens" to translate the manual. simply takes the picture and convert it into English language and save in desired document format.
Took me a while to figure out that putten-shamaeter is potentiometer in your videos, otherwise, totally excellent videos!
Your conclusion made me laugh so hard. :D One of your funniest video I'm not surprised it did not blow up, but I am glad you survived. :D
I just ordered a 3000 watt pure sine for 170 dollars from China. I just hope it gets here. How good it is , is not that important to me for 170 dollars. If it lasts me one year ill be happy.
GREAT EFFORT in your analysis !
Amazing video, as always. I really love your channel and content and I learn lots from you. Thank you, have a good day/evening/night and keep it up! :)
@GreatScott! There are three filter electrolytic capacitors (C1, C2, C3) and two decoupling capacitors (C14, C15) on the on-board power supply bus. The withstand voltage of the capacitor should be selected according to the power supply voltage. If working in high frequency mode and the power supply bus voltage is (330V~400V), select 450V withstand voltage. If working in industrial frequency mode and the power supply bus voltage is 48V, the capacitor withstand voltage should be 63V. The electrolytic capacitor capacity is selected according to the actual system power. Generally, the high frequency mode should be greater than 47uF, and the power frequency mode should be greater than 470uF. The decoupling capacitor is generally 0.1uF CBB capacitor, and the withstand voltage must be greater than the power supply bus voltage. If the withstand voltage of the capacitor is less than the bus voltage of the power supply, the capacitor may explode!
Sir, I recommend you to keep a common name for the video...so that u can increase the views... Awesome channel
I really like the animated drawings. It adds a lot to the learning experience, and I think you should do them more.
Regarding the waveform at 10:30:
It looks like your LED lamp uses a full bridge rectifier with a smoothing capacitor.
The voltage at the transformer drops very hard while it's loading the capacitor, so the output just seems to have a high internal resistance.
I guess that's because you used a transformer with 230V for the input, but just hooked it up "backwards".
Danke für das informative Video. Gratuliere zum langen Atem im Haifischbecken "RUclips" und viel Glück im 2019
Hey Scott, bravo for saving lives. (at least mine)
Great video. I think there is no compromises on inverters. I wouldn't risk and just pay more for good one.
This one flew above my head XD ... Great video though!
tej płytki powinieneś użyć jedynie przy falowniku, najpierw przetwornica 12-380v DC-DC, następnie osobna (płytka/układ) z egs002 jako falownik ;)
Yo Scott. I AM MAKING an inverter with mains output soon. so yeah, driven by Arduino to generate SPWM. I will include a feedback system. It's actually simple. All you need is a full bridge inverter that generates SPWM and analog components that smooth it out into a sine wave. Finally, a transformer to boost it. I will leave out the transformer until I get a good sine wave, though.
Thanks for the awasom video sir. I am a big fan of you.
My whole pc corroded after all this salt.
PD: Awesome video as always :D
That was alot of work. Tough project. Good job.
I am using this modules properly after some Engineering modifications. You need to modify the transformer. The turn ratio will be 6.5 to 240 ac instead of 12/220v conventional transformer for 12V battery. And for more noload efficiency you need to add 40~100 uH power inductor in series of primary coil. After all it is a good spwm modules with cheap cost.