Iran-Made Power Converters Competing with European Rivals
Manufacturing the product will decrease the country's need for imports, said Fatemeh Nasrollahzadeh, a member of the board of directors of the company.
She pointed out that the converter consists of electronic components namely inductors and capacitors, which causes the output current to rise or fall slowly.
Together with a transformer, the system is used to convert a certain direct current input voltage into a completely different alternating current output voltage, she explained.
A converter may do one or more functions and give an output that differs from the input.
It is used to increase or decrease the magnitude of the input voltage, invert polarity, or produce several output voltages of either the same polarity with the input, different polarity, or mixed polarities such as in the computer power supply unit.
The converter can produce more than 90 percent useful energy, she said, adding that when the on/off switch is activated, electrical pulses are generated directly.
“Therefore, in order to generate alternate current, the current must be reversed 50 to 60 times in one second, which is done by the converter,’ she went on to say.
She added that Iranian converters have lower price than European models, but there is competition with Chinese models, which makes marketing difficult for Iranian knowledge-based companies.
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