A study on the burn-in test of charger with load bank elimination

Author

Lin, C.E. ; Tsai, M.T. ; Tsai, W.I. ; Huang, C.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

1995

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

77

Abstract

For burn-in test of battery charger, heaters are generally used as loads, and significant energy will be wasted. In order to save energy and reduce the test cost, a load consumption free method is expected. In this paper, a new control strategy of three-phase PWM DC/AC inverter using current-mode control is proposed for this purpose. Replacing the heat load by a DC/AC inverter, the energy is fedback to the utility system. The proposed method can be used to test chargers or other DC equipments. In this paper, the theoretical results are verified both by simulated and experimental results in a 5 KVA laboratory prototype system

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; PWM power convertors; battery chargers; circuit testing; rectifiers; 3-phase inverter; 5 KVA laboratory prototype system; PWM DC/AC inverter; battery charger; burn-in test; current-mode control; load bank elimination; Costs; Electronic equipment testing; Equations; Inverters; Laboratories; Load flow; Power electronics; Pulse width modulation; Resistors; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Automation and Control: Emerging Technologies, 1995., International IEEE/IAS Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2645-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IACET.1995.527542

Filename

527542