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would be posting extracts from our blog to help someone out there make a better decision.


[center]Before You Buy That Inverter, Here A Few Things You Wish You Knew.
The story of power supply in Nigeria is an intriguing one.Small wonder people now rely on inverter system and generators.
This is the 21st century and uninterrupted power supply still remains an unrealized dream.

Despite government’s progressively huge investments in the sector over the last decade, power continues to remain a challenge leaving Nigerians to individually generate their own power; and that, expensively too! and here is where inverter comes in.

In 2012, the Director General of the Center for Management Development, Dr. Kabir Usman, stated that about 60 million Nigerians spend 1.6 trillion naira on generators annually.

Typically, choices for alternative power generation are limited to generators or inverters.

We all know what generators are but our knowledge of inverters is a limited. Many have not seen an inverter and do not know exactly what it looks like since inverters are usually installed indoors but generators are very well known.

Inverters have significant advantages over generators especially because they are noiseless. However, before we go any further, what exactly are inverters?

WHAT IS AN INVERTER?
An inverter is an electronic device or circuitry which transforms the energy stored in direct current (DC) batteries into alternating current (AC).



DC simply means current flow from the negative terminal of a device or battery through a circuit and back to the positive terminal of the device or battery. The flow is in one direction only, hence its name .



In contrast to DC, AC or alternating current constantly changes polarity, sending current one way through the circuit, then reversing and sending it the other way.



This occurs very quickly, usually 50 times in one second (50Hz). But the main reason why AC power is more in use today is because it works well at high voltages and can be easily stepped up or down by a transformer more easily than DC.



for the full article please go to mozabo engineerings blog on inverter


Here

http://www.mozabo.com/wp/inverter/
look out for our inverter batteries article and price list

would update this thread same time next week[/center]

This occurs very quickly, usually 50 times in one second (50Hz).

But the main reason why AC power is more in use today is because it works well
at high voltages and can be easily stepped up or down by a transformer more easily
than DC.
Now, while a lot of small appliances work on DC current, most of our electronic devices
work on AC and this is the AC power that is supplied to our homes by the power companies.



If we wanted to power a small appliance such as a mobile phone or a small radio,
a 12 volt DC power source would suffice. But our spectrum of needs stretch farther
than that.



I mean, how would you power your refrigerators and washers?



Now this is where inverters come in. Since power generated from
batteries or solar panels is DC power, it cannot be used by appliances
like your refrigerator or washer as such appliances are AC designated.



Therefore an inverter is required to convert the DC power generated from
a battery or solar panel into AC power which your refrigerator or washer can use.

HOW AN INVERTER WORKS
Basically, there are two designs for producing household plug-in voltage from a lower
voltage DC source (e.g., batteries). First you use a switching boost converter to produce a
higher voltage DC and then convert it to AC.



The second method converts DC to AC at battery level and uses a line frequency transformer
to create the output voltage. Basically, that is how inverters work – they invert DC to AC, they
do NOT generate power.

Mozabo:
Hello all

would be posting extracts from our blog to help someone out there make a better decision.


[center]Before You Buy That Inverter, Here A Few Things You Wish You Knew.
The story of power supply in Nigeria is an intriguing one.Small wonder people now rely on inverter system and generators.
This is the 21st century and uninterrupted power supply still remains an unrealized dream.

Despite government’s progressively huge investments in the sector over the last decade, power continues to remain a challenge leaving Nigerians to individually generate their own power; and that, expensively too! and here is where inverter comes in.

In 2012, the Director General of the Center for Management Development, Dr. Kabir Usman, stated that about 60 million Nigerians spend 1.6 trillion naira on generators annually.

Typically, choices for alternative power generation are limited to generators or inverters.

We all know what generators are but our knowledge of inverters is a limited. Many have not seen an inverter and do not know exactly what it looks like since inverters are usually installed indoors but generators are very well known.

Inverters have significant advantages over generators especially because they are noiseless. However, before we go any further, what exactly are inverters?

WHAT IS AN INVERTER?
An inverter is an electronic device or circuitry which transforms the energy stored in direct current (DC) batteries into alternating current (AC).



DC simply means current flow from the negative terminal of a device or battery through a circuit and back to the positive terminal of the device or battery. The flow is in one direction only, hence its name .



In contrast to DC, AC or alternating current constantly changes polarity, sending current one way through the circuit, then reversing and sending it the other way.



This occurs very quickly, usually 50 times in one second (50Hz). But the main reason why AC power is more in use today is because it works well at high voltages and can be easily stepped up or down by a transformer more easily than DC.



for the full article please go to mozabo engineerings blog on inverter


Here

http://www.mozabo.com/wp/inverter/
look out for our inverter batteries article and price list

would update this thread same time next week[/center]