The solar inverter charger is not the same as a converter,the inverter charger turns DC voltage to AC voltage ,the converter turns AC voltage to DC voltage .Both transform voltage but in opposite directions.And the hybrid inverter charger combines the function of the inverter and the converter.
1.What are AC and DC electricity?
Someone may ask:What is AC ,what is DC?That is a good question,because before understand the difference between an inverter battery charger and a converter,it is important to figure out what AC and DC are ;AC is short for alternating current,DC is short for direct current.If you look it up on Wikipedia,it says alternating current is an electric current which periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time in contrast to direct current which flows only in one direction.For the sake of simplicity,let’s give you some examples:AC power runs most of your domestic appliances,such as washing machine,Television,refrigerator,that means anything that plugs into a wall socket is using AC power,which is coming from the utility grid power,usually it will be in 110V,220V or 240V.For DC power,in a word,it is coming from the batteries,such as power bank,electrical shaver,mobile phones etc.,any devices with a battery is using DC power internally,and the DC power is in 12V as usual.
2.The difference between solar inverter chargers and converters.
Now we understand exactly the difference between AC and DC,then we can go further with the difference between a solar inverter charger and a converter.Let’s give you some examples as well.
When you charge the battery of your laptop ,you need plug it into the wall socket firstly,and then the converter which is built in the laptop converts the AC power into DC power,after a while of charging,the power is stored in the battery.Before charging the battery of the laptop,the converter need transform the city power(if 220V AC) into 12V DC form,then the power can be stored,that is basically how a converter works.
For a hybrid inverter charger,it combines both converter and inverter,let’s use a solar inverter battery charger as an example,generally speaking,the function of a solar inverter charger is converting the DC power stored in the battery into AC power,because only in this way,it can power the AC electronics.
3. How the hybrid inverter charger works?
So how the hybrid inverter charger works?When there is solar panels connected to the inverter,and with the help of the MPPT solar charge controller,the inverter battery charger will charge the batteries with the power from the solar panels(DC power) until fully charged.But when discharging and using the power from the batteries,we will need the solar inverter charger to turn DC power to AC power and power the devices.On the other hand,the hybrid inverter charger can be connected to the city power as well.Someone may ask,can the batteries be charged by the city power?as the city power is AC power,the answer is yes,because there is an inverter battery charger built in the inverter,when there is city power,the solar inverter charger turns AC power to DC power and in this way,the power can be stored inside the batteries.And when discharging,the hybrid inverter charger can turn the DC power from the battery into AC power,and power the electronics as you need.
In short,a converter is only a converter which only can turns the AC power to DC power and charge the battery,but an inverter battery charger is converter and inverter,it can charge the battery,and also can turns DC power to AC power and run your electronics.
China Xindun Power has over 16 years of experience in researching, developing, and producing hybrid inverter chargers. Our inverter battery chargers include low-frequency and high-frequency inverters, single-phase and three-phase inverters, energy storage inverters, UPS inverters, and more. From small-scale solar systems to large-scale solar systems projects, our solar inverter chargers have been applied in various fields worldwide, exporting to over 80 countries and regions.
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