Design of Reliability Testing of A Grid Tie Inverter Using A Solar Simulator

The main aim of the study is to present a systematic way to evaluate reliability of large grid connected inverters and to analyse Fault due to variation of input power and ambient condition. A series of reliability indices are defined to study the PV systems reliability performance. By testing of this system a GTI can be designed at a low cost. To perform sensitivity analyses to investigate different factors of performance. To overcome the growing need for power this project gives a way to overcome it at a low cost. Here a GTI integrated to a solar system is implemented. The Grid tie inverter uses an ICE method to achieve Maximum Power Point. The system is tested with different samples of solar cell and with different boost converters. The result shows the analysis of the system in different point of views. It has been shown that for a GTI has to be given an intelligent charge controller in order to achieve maximum power point. The results show a more effective and efficient parameters to be considered in the design of Grid Tie Inverter.