Battery wiring, or: how to destroy an inverter

Damien over at www.evbmw.com had some fun recently with an “indestructible” Toyota Prius inverter.

Although the problem turned out to be something entirely different (zero dead time! 😳), his investigations showed how important it is to carefully consider the current path between the battery, the inverter and the DC bus capacitor.

Basically:

And make sure you never do this:

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