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By Paul Grana, co-founder of Folsom Labs How well do you know inverter clipping losses? We’ve previously shown that over-power clipping losses aren’t nearly what most people expect them to be—for a DC-to-AC ratio of 1.2 in Georgia, an engineer can expect clipping losses of just 0.2%. However, if you talk to enough people, you might hear…
