Paul on Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:21:05 -0500 |
Power Factor is cool. When an electric motor starts, for example, it can make use of a capacitor to counteract the inductive load of the motor, so it will start easier. If you have a capacitive load, you can use an inductor to compensate. It's fun to actually see it happen, either physically or on a scope. Tom wrote: load actually dissipates that much power. The electric company spends a lot of money putting capacitor banks at substations to try and raise the power factor to 1.0 to cut their generating costs.
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