The motor vehicle has become part of everyday life for today's motorists. This includes numerous vehicle owners who would like to use the common, portable devices and consumer appliances even in their car. So automakers optionally deliver their models with 230 V outlets already installed. Alternatively, there are various retrofitting solutions that supply 230 V - by tapping into the 12 V on-board outlet.
This situation generates brand new tasks and problems for automotive mechatronics engineers:
- May an automotive mechatronics engineer retrofit such an installation?
- May he make repairs to it?
- Are there any regulations to pay attention to?
This field of instruction exhaustively studies these questions on the one hand and of course the technology on the other hand.
- What is an inverter?
- and how does it work?
- How does it relate to personal safety?
- Which faults may arise and how can they be diagnosed and corrected?