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httpz | 11 months ago

Or 1300 horsepower

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incompatible|11 months ago

That's just a rough conversion for 1 megawatt. I was curious about the actual voltage and current they were using, since the article didn't say much.

adrian_b|11 months ago

The values posted above cannot be far from the real values.

Perhaps they use something like 700 A at 1400 V.

It is unlikely that they use a voltage over 1500 V, because the semiconductor switches used in the converter become much more expensive at higher voltages. A current of 700 A or even 1000 A can be easily handled by a single IGBT module. There are much bigger semiconductor switches that can handle several thousand ampere currents.