Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is dividing the solar industry. There are ardent defenders of the single MPPT-channel approach and those that cannot seem to get enough channels. To understand the ...
A research team in the Netherlands investigated how copper planar air-core inductors can yield the required inductor properties to support sub-module power conversion in PV modules. The scientists ...
Fig 1. The multiplierless MPPT system incorporates a buck converter and a control stage. R SHU and the current sense amplifier, U5, sense the system’s output power. Fig 2. Using a perturb-and-observe ...