The peak wavelength for a 2400 K black body (incandescent lamp) is at
1.2 um, thus a large portion drops outside the silicon solar panel response,
Admittedly a lot radiation falls also inside the panel response. Some have used such light sources even for generating visible light with very bad efficiency for moe than a century :-).
The problem with sine waveform is that the output voltage would depend heavily on the load. Might be a problem if you depend on PSR. A bipolar rectangular waveform will keep the V_OUT rock-stable.
This is a multichannel sigma-delta, not exactly sure how to sync it with anything.
There's not a lot of difference between rectifying a 12 volts p-p sine vs rectifying 12 volts p-p square wave. A sine is pretty flat on top. I'd lost-regulate some anyhow.
I was also considering a more conventional push-pull drive into a transformer, but with slow, trapezoidal edges. That pretty much eliminates using any stock driver chips.
I have a couple of weird constant-amplitude sinewave power converters I need to Spice. One is a power Colpitts, and one is a strange resonant phase-shift oscillator.
I'm reading about WWII torpedo development. Colpitts himself was an important player in that. The Fido air-dropped, antisub, semi-intelligent acoustic homing torpedo was impressive, for being developed fast and using tubes, and for working at all.
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I have good experience with the two-transistor current-fed Royer. The output was a sine, at least visually on the scope -- I didn't bother to measure its quality any deeper.
Some reading on the German V2 might be interesting to you too. Those guys achieved perfection with magamps.
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