Multilevel inverter allows the production of high voltage with lower harmonic distortion in ac output and it eliminates the need of transformer. With the usage of multilevel inverter, we can get the required ac voltage output from multiple dc voltage rails. One of the disadvantage in it is the unbalancing of dc link capacitor voltage. The basic aim of this paper is the balancing of dc link capacitor voltage in diode-clamped multilevel inverter. There are different approaches which could be used

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... for balancing of the capacitor voltage. In this paper, the method of additional auxiliary circuit in the form of Two-level Boost converter is being adopted to balance the inner capacitor voltages so as to get the required multilevel output. This balancing leads to the reliability in the inverter output voltage and extension in life of capacitor. The simulations for this are being performed in MATLAB SIMULINK® and the result are being analyzed for the same by employing it for different load condition. The scheme thus offer the proper balancing of capacitor voltage.