Here the main advantages of cyclo-converter over the inverter are given below:
- Efficiency is very high compared to other converters.
- While using the four-quadrant operation is possible because cyclo-converter is capable of power transfer in both directions.
- When the AC power at one frequency is directly converted to a lower frequency in a using a single conversion.
- If one of the SCR is failed, the cyclo-converter operates with some distorted output.
- In this type of converter, power transfer is possible from supply load and vice versa at any power factor.
- The dynamic response is good
- Smooth low-speed operation
- The cyclo converter operates online communication, therefore, extra fore commutation components are not required.
- If when one of the silica control rectifiers (SCR) fails the cyclo converter operates with distorted output.
- The power transfer in the cyclo converter is possible from supply to load and vice versa at any of the use power factor.
- The cyclo converter generates a very high-quality sinusoidal waveform for low output frequency while in the static inverter generates a square waveform for low output frequency.
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