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Homemade 2000 VA Power Inverter Circuit

Last Updated on August 3, 2020 by Swagatam 28 Comments

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Making a power inverter circuit rated above 2000 VA is always difficult, mainly because of the involved transformer dimension which becomes quite huge, unmanageable and difficult to configure correctly.

Introduction

Power inverters in the range of KVA, requires huge current transferring capabilities for implementing the required operations as per the desired specs of the unit.

Transformer being the main power cranking component of such an inverter, requires high current handling secondary winding if the used battery voltage is at the lower side, for example 12 or 24 volts.

In order to optimize the transformer at lower currents, the voltage needs to be pushed at higher levels which again becomes a problematic issue, because higher voltage means putting batteries in series.

The above problems can definitely demoralize any new electronic hobbyists or anybody who might be planning to make a rather big inverter design, may be for controlling the whole house electrical.

An innovative approach for make things simpler even with huge power inverter designs has been discussed in this article which uses smaller discrete transformers with individual drivers for implementing a 2000 VA inverter circuit.

How it Works

Let's study the circuit diagram and it's operations with the following points:

Basically the idea is to divide the power into many different smaller transformers whose outputs can be fed to individual sockets for operating the relevant electrical appliances.

This method helps us to avoid the need of hefty and complicated transformers, and the proposed design becomes feasible even for an electronic novice to understand and construct.

Four IC4049s have been employed in this design. A single 4049 consists of 6 NOT gates or inverters, so in all 24 of them have been used here.

Two of gates are wired up for generating the basic required square wave pulses and the rest of the gates are simply held as buffers for driving the next relevant stages.

Each transformer utilizes a couple of gates and the respective high current Darlington transistors which function as the driver transistors. The associated gates conduct alternately and drive the transistors in accordance.

The mosfets which are connected to the driver transistors respond to the above high current signals and start pumping the battery voltage directly into the winding of the respective transformers.

Due to this an induced high voltage AC starts flowing through the complementary output winding of all the involved transformers, generating the required AC 220 V or 120 V at the respective outputs.

These voltage become available in small pockets, so only the relevant magnitude of power can be expected from each of the transformers.

The 555 section takes care of the square wave output generated from the oscillator stage such that these are broken into sections and optimized for replicating a modified sine wave output.

All the parts after POINT X should be repeated for acquiring discrete power output sections, the common input of all these stages must be joined to POINT X.

Each of the transformer may be rated at 200 VA, so together, 11 stages (after pointX) would provide roughly outputs up to 2000 VA.

Though using many transformers instead of a single might look like a small drawback, the actual need of deriving 2000 VA using ordinary parts and concepts finally becomes achievable from the above design very easily.

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About Swagatam

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  1. Adetunji Odebola says

    September 7, 2021

    please Sir l like to know more about this inverter l want learn it sir and l want no how to build it sir please lneed your help about it l need the original circuit diagram break down of it sir so I can build it too for my pumping machine out home sir

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 7, 2021

      Adetunji, the basic working princicple of all inverter is the same. You just need an oscillator circuit to drive the mosfets and the transformer. For more info you can read the following article:

      How to Design an Inverter – Theory and Tutorial

      Reply
  2. ISAIAH says

    June 12, 2021

    How can I determine which component to use make occilator for the inverter

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      June 12, 2021

      the frequency output must be 50 Hz or 60 Hz, this can be calculated using formula or through practical test using a frequency meter.

      Reply
  3. Francis says

    April 9, 2021

    Pls sir can you drop me a more elaborate circuit schematic. Just like u did with the 500watt inverter. I did construct the 500watt inverter and it’s working perfectly.

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      April 9, 2021

      I am glad it is working, in that case you can simply upgrade the 500 watt design to 2000 watt, by using more number of MOSFETs in parallel, a 2kv transformer, and a 500 Ah battery.

      Reply
  4. kiran reddy says

    June 20, 2019

    Hi Swagatam sir,
    I have observed in few inverters less than 1000watts, inside of it there is transformer which is different from normal transfomer or central taped. on primary side it has five leads… and inverter transformers are in small size.. is there any difference between normal transfomers and inverter transformers? And i found that core is ferrite.. is it effect on transformer size… ?For normal power supplys i found iron core… and for inverters ferrite core transformers there? is it standards…! Please help me in this.

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      June 20, 2019

      Hi Kiran,
      Ferrite transformers are compact alternative of the iron core transformers. You can read more about it here:

      https://www.homemade-circuits.com/how-to-design-and-calculate-ferrite-core-transformers-for-inverters/

      All transformers work with the same principle, there are no special categories for different applications…only the material, winding specs change, but working principle remains the same.

      Reply
  5. Chinomso says

    July 25, 2018

    I need your help on this sir,. I built a 2000w inverter circuit with 12 irf3502 mosfets, 6 of them on either side, and transistor tip41 as the driver of the irf3502 mosfets and ic sg3524 as the driving ic. Each time I turn on the circuit, it would work for seconds with strong heating effect on the mosfets, and would destroy one of the tip41 transistors. However, I did not connect protective diode. Is there any need for protective diodes on the output of the mosfets as it could be the course of the transistor destruction?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      July 25, 2018

      Chinomso, first of all TIP41 is not required for driving mofests. You can do it with much smaller transistors, however in your circuit the TIP could have got burnt wrong connections of the TIP, and not because of the reverse diode on the mosfets. Having said that, reverse diode are necessary and you should connect them across the mosfets channels or across the respective trafo winding

      Reply
  6. Chinomso says

    July 25, 2018

    Can a 2000watts voltage regulator (stabilizer) transformer be used as power transformer for the 2000watts inverter circuit?. If yes, please can you suggets the winding procedure, which would include: the wire guages and the number of wire turns for both the primary and secondary side. Thanks

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      July 25, 2018

      sorry I do not know how to modify a stabilizer transformer into an inverter transformer, a professional trafo designer will know that better.

      Reply
  7. Ed De says

    November 26, 2016

    Can the output of all the transformers be connected in paralell?

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      November 27, 2016

      No…

      Reply
  8. Puneet Sharma says

    July 24, 2014

    sir it means that 11 transformers will be required and 3 ic 4049 i think repeating your 1 kva is better whats your view

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      July 25, 2014

      Puneet, the above circuit could be lengthy but will give no troubles while building and testing

      Reply
  9. saurabh nimavat says

    May 24, 2014

    Please send all part list

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      May 24, 2014

      click the diagram, it's given in the diagram itself.

      Reply
  10. saurabh nimavat says

    May 24, 2014

    Please send part list

    Reply
  11. ABRAHAM ONOSAKPONOME says

    October 26, 2013

    sir i have a transformer that was use for 1500w ups, the primary has 4tap and secondary has 2tap will it be aplicable for this circuit, please respond to southern.tech59@gmail.com

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      October 26, 2013

      Abraham,

      You can try this one instead, it's much simpler and reliable.:

      1.bp.blogspot.com/-z9RRPSTi8zs/UbR4uKyuLRI/AAAAAAAAESo/rGu-sAhOqio/s1600/IC%204047%20inverter%20circuit.jpg

      Reply
  12. Swagatam says

    October 13, 2013

    30nos 3 watt leds will not work with 6v/4.5ah batt

    Reply
  13. Abdul Lukman says

    September 3, 2013

    hello sir, kindly send me your contact, so that we can talk biz

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 4, 2013

      Please contact me on my email ID, it's given in "contacts"

      Reply
    • Abdul Lukman says

      September 8, 2013

      hello sir, am an electrical student. my project is to build a 2000va,24v inverter.
      i have searched the internet but couldnt get how to go about it. pls help me sir.
      writing a good proposal is another challenge pls. i have not bought any material

      Reply
    • Abdul Lukman says

      September 8, 2013

      hello sir, am an student. my project is to build a simple inverter. 2000va,24v.
      please help me sir. i need to know how to go about it sir.
      i want to know d materials (components) to buy. please help me sir. thank u

      Reply
    • Swagatam says

      September 9, 2013

      Hello Abdul,

      Making an inverter rated as high as 2000VA is not easy unless you are an expert in electronics. I have published many designs of smaller versions, you can try any one these ans upgrade it to higher levels step wise:

      https://www.homemade-circuits.com/p/sine-wave-inverters.html

      Reply
  14. Swagatam says

    August 12, 2013

    are you well versed with electronic basics? otherwise you shouldn't attempt.

    Reply

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