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Old 01-13-2010, 12:39 PM   #238 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jackbauer View Post
Yes if both waveforms happen to be 180 degrees phase shifted. However with this design it will run on any ac voltage from 90v to 260v as long as the battery full charge voltage is lower than than 90% of the dc bus voltage at whatever ac input. eg rectified 240v ac gives about 320vdc so will charge from 32v to 288v. half that on a 120v ac input.
Use a buck/boost design that dynamically switches between buck and boost operation.
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