On Thu, 12 May 2022, Toby Thain wrote:
I also hate the English/American expression "inverter" for voltage
converters, because really nothing is being inverted in any way.
Generating AC from DC _does_ always involve generation of "inverted" voltages
relative to the input DC (AC has positive and negative cycles), so the term
isn't really strange?
It is very strange and wrong, because alternating != inverting.
Making -9V out of +9V would be inverting, making "AC" from "DC" is
chopping (along with the chopper circuit, chopper transformer...).
Inverting is making something, well, inside out, upside down and the like.
That's not appropriate for AC to DC.
But this is a cultural thing. Like other terms, e.g. "shipping" although
most of the time there is no ship involved.
Christian
