120v Feedback from Appliance to Inverter?
Wondering if the PSW inverter can "see" what is plugged into it. Never mind between inductive and resistive--I mean between different resistive appliances. Does each appliance have its own feedb...
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simple answer: no there is not feedback, and loads within the inverter limits don't have much effect, nor do mutliple load normally interact beyond reason. (for a well designed inverter)
Longer answer: one could look at the voltage and current output from the inverter and treat the load as a "black box" and knowing the inverter characteristics define what the "black box" looks like electrically. Resitive, inductive, capacitive, etc.
Since the inverter is not an "ideal" voltage source, it's output waveform and levels will vary depending on the load. But if one knows the source and load characteristics the results can be predicted.
The inverter can and does look at it's output voltage and current to keep the inverter operating as expected, but it does not normally have any way of looking at the load directly to modify it's output. So in that sense no feedback.
But that is no different than the power coming into your house. It's just that the power source coming into your house is closer to "ideal" voltage source than the inverter is.
Longer answer: one could look at the voltage and current output from the inverter and treat the load as a "black box" and knowing the inverter characteristics define what the "black box" looks like electrically. Resitive, inductive, capacitive, etc.
Since the inverter is not an "ideal" voltage source, it's output waveform and levels will vary depending on the load. But if one knows the source and load characteristics the results can be predicted.
The inverter can and does look at it's output voltage and current to keep the inverter operating as expected, but it does not normally have any way of looking at the load directly to modify it's output. So in that sense no feedback.
But that is no different than the power coming into your house. It's just that the power source coming into your house is closer to "ideal" voltage source than the inverter is.
