MPPT or DC-DC converter
In PVsyst, the MPPT or DC-DC converter device (if present) is considered part of the Regulator.
Its operation and parameters are similar to those of the inverter (in fact, the inverter is an MPPT-AC converter):
- DC-DC converter: nominal fixed input voltage.
- MPPT converter: minimum and maximum MPP tracking voltages.
- Both: absolute maximum input voltage.
- Power threshold.
- Efficiency profile according to power.
- Maximum and European efficiency.
- Behavior type at power overload or outside the voltage window.
Like the inverter, the simulation process accumulates detailed specific energy losses during operation (inefficiency, under-threshold operation, power overload, outside voltage requirements, etc.).