Direct AC-AC Step-Down Single-Phase Converter with Improved Performances

The paper presents two high-performance single-phase AC chopper circuits which perform AC-AC bidirectional direct conversion;one of them contains resistive loads and the other one is for inductive loads. It includes useful equations for chopper design. The correctfunctioning is tested by simulation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eee.18.10.1305

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