High Surge Power Inverters Facts

Inverter technology has advanced far beyond what was available only a decade ago. The first electronic inverters to be introduced were basic square wave inverters. This type has the most limited application and is not recommended for televisions or computers. Different types of inverters have various ways of dealing with electrical energy and how certain devices require it. Consider the equipment a high surge inverter will be powering as well as how the inverter itself works.

Power Inverters

# Power inverters take in DC (direct current), and convert it to AC (alternating current), the current used for American household appliances. Most small power inverters are used in cars or boats to run plug-in electronics, but some are also used to channel solar energy current into a usable format. Generally, a power inverter takes the current from a battery and changes it to support AC electronics.Wave Form

# A power inverter's quality depends largely on the purity of its sine waveform. The AC electric current is always transmitted according to a sine wave ratio, but how closely the current actually follows the sine wave pattern indicates how clean or useful it is. Early power inverters only imitated sine waves, creating in fact modified "square" waves that were not suitable for computers or televisions. Pure sine inverters, a newer invention, improve the current and produce as exact a sine wave as they can.

Power Ratings

# Power inverters are rated by watts, and three different kinds of ratings are typically given. The first rating is the constant number of watts an inverter can produce indefinitely, with temperature and energy sources taken into account. The second number is a higher-power setting that the inverter can maintain only for a certain amount of time, usually half an hour or so. The third rating is its surge capacity, how it can handle build-ups and releases of power.

Surges

# Most surges in power inverters occur when they are trying to build up power to run a particularly intensive application, such as an electrical motor. Inverters often need to send a large amount of energy continuously to such motors in order to run them, and not all inverters can handle it. Some inverters may shut down automatically if they can't generate enough current, and that can damage computers and televisions. High surge power inverters build up enough charge to start motors and other more complicated electrical equipment.Sensors and Effects

# In case of surges or sudden losses in power, high quality inverters are equipped with sensors that shut the inverter down to protect it. Of course, this shutting down can also harm other electronic equipment connected to the inverter, and a good inverter can increase power in increments or deal with large energy loads.