250 to 5000 watts PWM DC/AC 220V Power Inverter This is my schematic design of a Pulse Width Modulator DC/AC

inverter using the chip SG3524 . I have built this design and using it as a backup to power up all my house when outages occur. See more details and the full article that I posted at Instructables.com, click here Notes: -The schematic circuit design is for a 250 watt output, while the pics are of my 1500 watts inverter that i built, to increase the power of the circuit you have to add more of the Q7 and Q8 transistors in parallel, each pair you add will in crease your power by 250 watts, ex: to get 750 watts of power from the inverter you need to add 2 of Q7 and 2 of Q8 to the original design. If you increase the power transistors you have to enlarge the T2 transformer to m atch the new needs, the circuit s transformer is rated 25 amps to handle 250 watts of 220v, for every 1 additional amp you need on the 220v side you have to incre ase 10 amps on the 12v side, of course there are limits to the thickness of the winding so if you need more than 750 watts i recommend that you use a 24VDC supp ly instead of 12 volts: DC voltage and Transformer T2? winding recommendation: Power Supply Winding 750w 12VDC P:24V 12-0-12? / S:220V 1500w 24VDC P:48V 24-0-24? / S:220V 2250w 36VDC P:72V 36-0-36? / S:220V 3000w 48VDC P:96V 48-0-48? / S:220V 3750w 60VDC P:120V 60-0-60? / S:220V 4500w 72VDC P:144V 72-0-72? / S:220V 5250w 84VDC P:168V 84-0-84? / S:220V *The transformer should be center tapped at the primary side. **You can make the secondary 110v if needed. ***The transformer in the pic is a custom made (48V center tapped / 220v ) 2000 watts, weights like 10 kilos. R1 is to set the PWM to 220v R2 is to set the frequency to 50 or 60 Hz Use either tantalum or polyester film as in pic for the 104 caps, ceramic disc caps change value once hot and this in turn changes the frequency of the inverter so they are not recommended. Wiring should be thick enough to handle the huge amps drain from the batteries. The design does not include a battery charger since each person will be building a custom version of the inverter with specific power needs. A cooling fan will be needed to reduce heat off the heat sinks and transformer, i recommend getting a 220v fan and connecting it to the output T2 transformer, wh en you power up the circuit the fan will start this will always give you a simpl e way to know that 220v is present and everything is OK.. 2 circuit breakers are recommended instead of fuses, one on the DC side and one o n the AC side, depending on your design Ex: for a 24vDC ( 1500 watts design ) put a 60Amp breaker on the DC side and a 6 Amp on the AC side. For every 1amp of 220vAC you will be draining like 8 to 10 Amps from the 12v bat tery, make your calculations !

The 2 Heat sinks should be big enough to cool the transistors, they are separate and should NOT touch each other. see the pics Optional : Deep Cycle batteries are your best choice, consider them for best result s .. read more