Ideal Power has invented, patented and commercialized a revolutionary new technology that significantly improves the weight, size, cost, efficiency and reliability of electronic power converters - the conduits to modern energy. Based on patented Power Packet Switching Architecture™ (PPSA) that uses a standard lightweight hardware design and embedded application-specific software, Ideal Power serves the multi-billion dollar power conversion markets of renewable energy, electrical energy efficiency, smart grids and electric vehicles. Ideal Power products include solar inverters, bi-directional battery and electric vehicle chargers, all built on the same lightweight Universal Power Converter Platform™.

Solutions 
  
Electronic power converters provide the infrastructure for the modern energy revolution including renewable energy generation, electrical energy efficiency, smart power grids, and electric vehicles. Ideal Power provides photovoltaic inverters, battery converters for grid storage and electrified vehicle fast-charging infrastructure with improved weight, size, cost and efficiency.

Solar 
  
Ideal Power's 30kW PV Inverter, the IPV-30kW-480, targets medium-size commercial installations and solar parking structures, typically ranging in size from 25kW to 250kW. The inverter supports standard grounded PV arrays (unipolar and bipolar configurations) without requiring internal or external transformers. Its lightweight design allows simple wall-mount installation indoors or outdoors. 
  
Ideal Power's new PV Combiner, the IPV-30-Combiner, replaces two combiners and two conduits with a single box solution, resulting in lower material and labor costs. Additionally, the combiner has integrated load-rated DC contactors, enabling both rooftop and remote disconnect. The combiner delivers improved firefighter safety protection by automatically disconnecting both high voltage and neutral current carrying conductors at the combiner during grid faults via a remote disconnect switch, or via a command from building fire safety systems. The product was designed to satisfy anticipated fire safety requirements of NEC 2014 - 690.12: Rapid Shutdown of PV Systems on Buildings. 
  
The IPV-30-Combiner is optimized for use with our IPV-30kW-480 PV Inverter, as well as the Company's 3-Port Hybrid Converter. 

Technology 
  
Ideal Power was formed to develop and commercialize the Company's patented Power Packet Switching Architecture™ (PPSA). PPSA is an entirely new approach to electronic power converters. It has a 100% indirect power transfer compared to direct power transfer from conventional power converters. All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. Since the input and output are never directly connected together, this novel current modulation technique provides circuit isolation without the size, weight, cost, and efficiency loss of a transformer. It also provides buck/boost voltage conversion, bi-directional power transfer, and multiport applications with any combination of independently-controlled AC and DC power ports. 

In PV inverter applications, the PPSA delivers weight and efficiency benefits of a transformer-less inverter, while supporting grounded PV arrays, which are the de facto U.S. standard. 
  
Other unique attributes of the Power Packet Switching Architecture™ include: 

• Non-resonant soft-switching dramatically reduces electrical and thermal stresses on power switches (silicon IGBTs).
• High AC link frequency utilizes compact inductor, eliminating bulk capacitors and further improving system reliability.
• Precise intra-cycle current management minimizes the need for output filtering.
• Bi-directional AC switches (shown in blue) minimize conduction losses, delivering high-efficiency power transfer in all modes of operation.