Multilevel inverter is increasingly being used in medium and high power application as conventional inverter have limited power hold and high total harmonics distortion. At present, there is a lot of literature regarding the topology and switching technique for multilevel inverter. The three common types of multilevel inverter are Diode Clamp Multilevel Inverter (DCMI), Cascaded Multilevel Inverter (CMI) and Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter (FCMI). This paper proposed the Three Phase Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter (FCMI) with Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) switching technique. This paper analysed the performance of FCMI and its characteristics based on parameters such as output phase voltage waveform and the total harmonics distortion (THD). The performance was accessed using Matlab/Simulink software. The result obtained shows that with higher number of levels for FCMI, the output THD was lowered due to near sinusoidal output waveform.

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