Open AccessDerivation of a family of high step‐up tapped inductor SEPIC converters
Author(s) -
Abramovitz Alexander,
Yao Jia,
Smedley Keyue
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2014.2190
Subject(s) - converters , inductor , snubber , topology (electrical circuits) , power (physics) , point (geometry) , electronic engineering , control theory (sociology) , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , voltage , capacitor , mathematics , physics , control (management) , geometry , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
A family of single‐switch SEPIC‐derived converters, which apply a tapped inductor (TI), a charge pump (CP) and an inductorless regenerative snubber to attain a high DC step‐up at high efficiency is introduced. The proposed converter family has the advantage of continuous input current, which can be helpful in attaining accurate tracking of the maximum power point of solar panels. The feasibility of the proposed topology is verified by simulation and experimental results.