Proposing Cost-Effective and Single Switch Dual Output Converters for Using Renewable Energy by Home Costumers

This paper illustrates new applications of boost and Cuk converters by applying innovative changes in their configurations. The restructured converters operate with high efficiency as cost-effective and single switch dual-output converters. The proposed converters have few extra components in comparison to the conventional boost and Cuk converters. The proposed converters can connect DC loads with different voltage levels to a DC link or other renewable energy sources. Also, using both of them in a structure makes preparing multilevel outputs with different voltage levels possible which is discussed in the paper. The converters design, analysis and experiments are in continues conduction mode (CCM). Prototypes for the proposed converters are prepared based on analysis and theoretical equations. Experimental results and theoretical equations are in good agreements with each other.