Inverter Circuits

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Inverters and Grid Intertie (IGI)- Inverters convert dc power to ac, or may be used for conditioning ac power. If a large power source is available from the sun - energy sales to the grid are feasible. This is cost prohibitive today due to the high price of components on a small scale. We aim to make selling power back to the grid feasible on scales of 1 kW. A good inverter is the heart of an off-grid electrical system if batteries are used to store power.

Collaboration

Review of Project Status

Are there relevant inverter circuits in these electronics links, taken from http://web.mit.edu/kumpf/www/kumpf-links.html:

• http://www.rlocman.com.ru/en/ RadioLocman. A very large archive of electronic circuits. You can find almost any type of circuit here, many with discriptions and explanations.
• http://www.chipcenter.com/ ChipCenter. Research electronic IC chips and view their datasheets.
• http://www.sm0vpo.8m.com/ Harry's Homebrew Homepage. A very interesting site with basic electrical theory, conversion and calculation programs, radio information, amplifier information, and a lot of circuits.
• http://www.us-epanorama.net/componentinfo.html Electronic Basics. Find out all kinds of information about all of the major electronic components. Very well organized and loaded with information.

The grid intertie inverters are sometimes called "grid-tie inverter" (GTI) or "grid-interactive inverter" or (for very large ones) "static inverter station" Are there relevant inverter circuits in these links, supplied by David Cary:

• http://www.romanblack.com/micro_gt.htm Micro Grid-Tie: A possible system to feed micro solar power back to the mains grid
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/grid_tie_inverter
• http://www.tinaja.com/magsn01.asp Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Magic Sinewaves Library
• http://solar.smps.us/grid-tied.html a typical grid tie solar power system

Development Work Template

1. IGI - Product Definition
   1. IGI - General
   2. IGI - General Scope
   3. IGI - Product Ecology
      1. IGI - Localization
      2. IGI - Scaleability
      3. IGI - Analysis of Scale
      4. IGI - Lifecycle Analysis
   4. IGI - Enterprise Options
   5. IGI - Development Approach
      1. IGI - Timeline
      2. IGI - Development Budget
         1. IGI - Value Spent
         2. IGI - Value available
         3. IGI - Value needed
   6. IGI - Deliverables and Product Specifications
   7. IGI - Industry Standards
   8. IGI - Market and Market Segmentation
   9. IGI - Salient Features and Keys to Success
2. IGI - Technical Design
   1. IGI - Product System Design
      1. IGI - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
         1. IGI - Pattern Language Icons
         2. IGI - Structural Diagram
         3. IGI - Funcional or Process Diagram
         4. IGI - Workflow
      2. IGI - Technical Issues
      3. IGI - Deployment Strategy
      4. IGI - Performance specifications
      5. IGI - Calculations
         1. IGI - Design Calculations
         2. IGI - Yields
         3. IGI - Rates
         4. IGI - Structural Calculations
         5. IGI - Power Requirements
         6. IGI - Ergonomics of Production
         7. IGI -Time Requirements
         8. IGI - Economic Breakeven Analysis
         9. IGI- Scaleability Calculations
         10. IGI - Growth Calculations
      6. IGI - Technical Drawings and CAD
      7. IGI - CAM Files
   2. IGI - Component Design
      1. IGI - Diagrams
      2. IGI - Conceptual drawings
      3. IGI - Performance specifications
      4. IGI - Performance calculations
      5. IGI - Technical drawings and CAD
      6. IGI - CAM files whenever available
   3. IGI - Subcomponents
3. IGI - Deployment and Results
   1. IGI - Production steps
   2. IGI - Flexible Fabrication or Production
   3. IGI - Bill of materials
   4. IGI - Pictures and Video
   5. IGI - Data
4. IGI - Documentation and Education
   1. IGI - Documentation
   2. IGI - Enterprise Plans
5. IGI - Resource Development
   1. IGI - Identifying Stakeholders
      1. IGI - Information Collaboration
         1. IGI - Wiki Markup
         2. IGI - Addition of Supporting References
         3. IGI - Production of diagrams, flowcharts, 3D computer models, and other qualitative information architecture
         4. IGI - Technical Calculations, Drawings, CAD, CAM, other
      2. IGI - Prototyping
      3. IGI - Funding
      4. IGI - Preordering working products
      5. IGI - Grantwriting
      6. IGI - Publicity
      7. IGI - User/Fabricator Training and Accreditation
      8. IGI - Standards and Certification Developmen
      9. IGI - Other
   2. IGI - Grantwriting
      1. IGI - Volunteer grantwriters
      2. IGI - Professional, Outcome-Based Grantwriters
   3. IGI - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
   4. IGI - Tool and Material Donations
   5. IGI - Charitable Contributions