TECH ARTICLES
Flood
s Isolation Barriers in Inverters
You can’t feed electricity from a solar power plant or wind turbine straight into the mains—you have to convert it using an inverter. IGBTs are fast power switches that “float” on high potentials and need to be galvanically isolated from the control electronics. Like a levee that keeps the flooding away from the land behind it, highly isolated DC/DC converters make sure that your installations are kept shored up against “flooding” before time.
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