Sentence examples for inverters from inspiring English sources
The word 'inverters' is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a device that converts direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). For example: "The company installed solar inverters to convert the energy from solar panels into usable electricity."
The transformer issue of Edison's time is not DC's problem today (subsequent development of rectifers and inverters using, first, mercury-arc valves and, later, thyristors provided a means for manipulating DC voltages).
If electronic rectifiers and inverters had been around at the time, Edison would have been able to distribute his DC electricity at far higher voltages.
Usually, solar panels need a complex tangle of wires, inverters, batteries and other equipment to be installed to make them work.
DC-to-DC converters are used to provide the voltage levels demanded by DC loads, and DC-to-AC inverters supply power to alternating current (AC) loads.
Inverters and additional protective gear are needed to interface low-voltage DC output from the solar array with a high-voltage AC power grid.
Installers say solar systems are generally reliable, but the panels are not guaranteed past 25 years or so, and the inverters, which convert the direct current the array produces to the alternating current that comes out of a socket, only last around 10 years.
And the power sockets may even require an antiquated inverter in order to trickle electricity into a battery.
On Thursday, the crew became acquainted with the generator's limit when its inverter gave out just before lunch.
A new inverter is being shipped from the mainland, but that would not be an option were this a genuine mission.
Installation, wiring and inverter can easily double the price.
This is produced by means of an electronic inverter.
