Research Article

Open Circuit Fault Diagnosis in Five-Level Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter

Table 2

Current path for healthy and faulty condition for all switches.

OCF switchCurrent path for healthy conditionCurrent path for faulty conditionMissing output voltage level

SX1EDC-SX1-a-d-SX7-EDC-SX5-c-b-SX3-EDCa-d-SX7-EDC-SX5-c-b-SX3-DX4-EDC+2EDC
SX2EDC-SX2-b-c-SX8-DX7-d-b-SX3-EDCb-c-SX8-DX7-d-b-SX3-DX4-a-EDC
SX3EDC-SX1-a-d-SX7-DX8-c-b-SX3a-d-SX7-DX8-c-b-DX2-SX1+EDC
SX4EDC-SX2-b-c-SX8-DX7-d-b-SX4b-c-SX8-DX7-d-a-DX1-SX2-EDC
SX5EDC-SX5-c-b-SX3-DX4-a-d-SX7c-b-SX3-DX4-a-d-SX7-DX8+EDC
SX6EDC-SX2-b-c-SX8-EDC-SX6-d-a-SX4-EDCEDC-SX2-b-c-SX8-DX7-d-a-SX4-EDC-2EDC
SX7c-b-SX3-DX4-a-d-DX6-SX5EDC-SX5-c-b-SX3-DX4-a-d-SX7+EDC
SX8EDC-SX6-d-a-SX4-DX3-b-c-SX8d-a-SX4-DX3-b-c-DX5-SX8-EDC