The invention is for improved regulation of a switching device (2) of an
inverter (1) with a filter circuit (3) and a mains
relay (4), wherein the filter circuit (3) is composed of at least one filter
inductance (LF) arranged in a conductor (P1, P2, P3, P4) and at least one filter
capacitance (CF) connecting two conductors (P1, P2, P3, P4) to one another and for the filter circuit (3) an
equivalent circuit (15) composed of an effective filter
inductance (LF m ) and an effective filter
capacitance (CF m ) is used, which effective filter
inductance results from at least one filter inductance (LF) of the filter circuit (3) and the topology of the filter circuit (3), and which effective filter
capacitance results from at least one filter capacitance (CF) of the filter circuit (3) and the topology of the filter circuit (3), wherein the effective filter inductance (LF m ) and the effective filter capacitance (CF m ) are used as object parameters. In order to determine the object parameters, a
voltage pulse is applied between a first conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) and a second conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) when the mains
relay (4) is open; the first conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) and the second conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) are connected by the switching device (2) to form a closed oscillation circuit (8, 8', 8"), which oscillation circuit extends from the first conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) and the first conductor (P1, P2, P3, P4) connected to the first conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) via the filter circuit (3) and the second conductor (P1, P2, P3, P4) to the second conductor output (W1, W2, W3, W4) connected to the second conductor (P1, P2, P3, P4); the current and / or
voltage change curve (11, 12) in the oscillation circuit (8, 8', 8") is used to determine the current values of the effective filter inductance (LF m ) and the effective filter capacitance (CF m ) as object parameters, with which current values the switching device is regulated.