Extend the use of auxiliary circuit to start up, shut down, and balance of the modified diode clamped multilevel inverter

Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1049-1053

  Ashaibi, Ahmed Ali ^a   Finney, S J ^a   Williams, B W ^a   Massoud, Ahmed ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Capacitor unbalance; Charging the capacitor; Discharging the capacitor; Multilevel inverter

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DC GENERATORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY STORAGE; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

AUXILIARY CIRCUITS; AUXILIARY SWITCHES; CAPACITOR UNBALANCE; CHARGING THE CAPACITOR; DC-LINK CAPACITORS; DIODE CLAMPED INVERTER; DIODE-CLAMPED MULTILEVEL INVERTER; DISCHARGING THE CAPACITOR; DRIVE SYSTEMS; HIGH VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS; HIGH VOLTAGES; INDUCTOR CURRENT-MODE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-LEVEL INVERTERS; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; SHUT DOWN; START UPS;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 49949108430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDS.2007.4487833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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