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DIY inverter

Ubbquittious · 2021-03-13 11:12:14

I was bored there during the last lockdown and designed the PCB, ordered it and didn't really bother anymore with it until yesterday Put a trailing socket onto an old mains->12vac inverter I found in a skip and connected the board to the secondary coil. The output signal from my board is nasty, a square wave with a pause…

13-03-2021 11:12am

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Ubbquittious

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I was bored there during the last lockdown and designed the PCB, ordered it and didn't really bother anymore with it until yesterday

Put a trailing socket onto an old mains->12vac inverter I found in a skip and connected the board to the secondary coil.

The output signal from my board is nasty, a square wave with a pause in the middle but it does work. Will have to try pure sine next. Transformer also isn't ideal - gives me 180V on the 12V input and 270 on the 8V

Video:

https://vimeo.com/523141818

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