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> An individual inverter can usually switch in about 4 ms.

A quarter of a 60 hz cycle or a fifth of a 50 hz cycle is really fast. For comparison, it takes a current limiting fuse around a half cycle to clear a short circuit current and a GFCI takes around two cycles to clear a ground fault.



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