How does your inverter work

Well an inverter essentially does not store electricity. For that you need batteries. Inverters help to store the AC power coming from municipality, solar panels or generator into the batteries by converting it into DC power.
This store DC power in the batteries now needs to be converted back to AC, which is also done by inverters.

All appliances at your home needs AC power to run.  The inverter is a “middleman” between mains supply and batteries that helps to store electricity in batteries and also extracts that stored electricity to run our load in case of load shedding.

What does an Inverter do when Mains Electricity is available?

Interestingly, the role of an inverter is not limited to when we experience power cuts. The inverter installed at your home works all the time. When continuous power supply from mains is available, your inverter bypasses itself and runs all your appliances by this AC power and also charges your batteries.

When the batteries are fully charged, the inverter stops giving charge to the batteries, thereby protecting them from being overcharged, and simply runs your load on bypass mode. However the batteries have a tendency to get slowly discharged when not in use,  but the inverter will trickle charge the battery to keep it topped up without over charging.