%O cited By 0; Conference of 6th International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2016 ; Conference Date: 15 August 2016 Through 17 August 2016; Conference Code:125970 %T Photo energy conversion using synchronous sequential circuit based diode clamp multilevel inverter %R 10.1109/ICIAS.2016.7824068 %J International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems, ICIAS 2016 %K Cost effectiveness; Diodes; Electric drives; Energy conversion; HVDC power transmission; Induction motors; MATLAB; Pulse width modulation; Sequential circuits; Switching circuits; Timing circuits; Voltage control, Diode-clamped multilevel inverters; Fault identifications; High power applications; Induction motor drive; Low-power consumption; Matlab/Simulink simulation; Synchronous sequential circuits; Total harmonic distortion (THD), Electric inverters %A R. Kannan %A R. Angamuthu %A K.Y. Ahmed %L scholars8982 %X The multilevel inverter technology introduced for medium and high voltage, high power applications. This paper is proposed to control the diode clamp multilevel inverter by using a synchronous sequential circuit for photo energy conversion. The performance of the multilevel inverter has been improved in-terms of minimum output harmonics distortion, simpler structure, effortless fault identification, cost-effectiveness and low power consumption. This new control strategy has maintained the balanced voltages on the dc link capacitors. PV based five-level diode clamped multilevel inverter has been validated with single induction motor drive through MATLAB/Simulink simulation and tested experimentally through the prototype model. © 2016 IEEE. %D 2017 %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.