Hello Ebowulf
I can do high level if I know what parts to get and have a schematic. I have created a base station for a project that runs on ac 110, ac220, 12vdc or off lipos, and has a collapsing circuitry made with relays to automatically switch to which ever voltage is available and if on 110 or 220 to charge the lipos or lead acid batteries. Nothing has been made for a FPV base station.
The problem that I am encountering with this is 2 fold. 1 I can not find a cheap 10,000watt VFD, and 2 I can not find a 10000 watt vfd that has 220v @ 50hz in and 110v @ 60hz out. Either it has not been made or there is not much demand.
I can do high level if I know what parts to get and have a schematic. I have created a base station for a project that runs on ac 110, ac220, 12vdc or off lipos, and has a collapsing circuitry made with relays to automatically switch to which ever voltage is available and if on 110 or 220 to charge the lipos or lead acid batteries. Nothing has been made for a FPV base station.
The problem that I am encountering with this is 2 fold. 1 I can not find a cheap 10,000watt VFD, and 2 I can not find a 10000 watt vfd that has 220v @ 50hz in and 110v @ 60hz out. Either it has not been made or there is not much demand.
Everything I've seen and read makes me think that building a high power vfd or inverter and getting reasonably clean power out of it is a very high level job. This isn't something you can just whip up with a few simple components. Getting DC from AC is trivial, but going the other way is not! I think you're better off buying an off the shelf unit.
As others have mentioned, a VFD (variable frequency drive) does exactly what you need - it takes AC power, converts it to DC, and then generates AC power from it at whatever frequency you want. I think this is your simplest solution, although I'll admit my first couple searches didn't find many options with 230V in and 115V out.
The other option, if you're confident in your ability to generate DC, would be to buy an inverter to handle switching back to AC at 50Hz.