By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-05-27 08:10
The development of photovoltaic (PV) panels has made solar-powered pumps a reality. The pump drivers are usually direct-current (DC) motors, which are fed by power electronic converters with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) to extract the whole energy that the PV panels can generate, depending on environmental conditions including irradiation and temperature. The implementation of the MPPT algorithm essentially involves sensing both an input current and an input voltage. Understandably, such realisation is expensive.
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