Method to increase reliability in 5-level inverter
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 39 (18), 1343-1345
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20030848
Abstract
A method to operate a cascaded 5-level inverter with faulty cells is presented. The addition of a contactor and the displacement in the reference voltages allows for a balanced operation, increasing the reliability of the converter.Keywords
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