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It is not possible to estimate the quantity of electricity wasted through the lowpowerfactorof such installations.
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I have spoken of thepowerfactorand of the load factor; but in all these matters time is of the utmost importance.
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Many industries objected to the capital cost of condensers forpowerfactorcorrection.
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A submarine of 1,000 tons displacement, with 4,000 horse power, will, therefore, yield 4 horse power per ton displacement, which is a very generouspowerfactor.
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At the insistence of the local authority and private power companies,powerfactorcorrection and maximum demand on load was introduced and with a consequent reduction in charges.
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The electrical equipment was designed for highpowerfactoroperation, obtained by a sector control method.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As reactive current increases, the reactive power increases and thepowerfactordecreases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For transmission systems with lowpowerfactor, losses are higher than for systems with highpowerfactor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These pulses have significant high frequency energy which reduces thepowerfactor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They find use as converters to change voltage, current or frequency, to store or deliver abruptly electric energy or to improve thepowerfactor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is because the position of the pointer depends on thepowerfactor, voltage and current.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other ratios are possible to obtain otherpowerfactorratings.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An activepowerfactorcorrection circuit at the input would generally reduce the harmonic currents further and maintain thepowerfactorcloser to unity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the grid disconnects, thepowerfactorsuddenly changes from the grid's (1) to the load's (1).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Circuits containing purely resistive heating elements (filament lamps, cooking stoves, etc.) have apowerfactorof 1.0.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The purpose is to make the load circuitry that ispowerfactorcorrected appear purely resistive (apparent power equal to real power).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Powerfactorhas become an issue of concern for computer manufacturers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The excitation is adjusted until a near unitypowerfactoris obtained (often automatically).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This exploits a feature of the machine where it consumes power at a leadingpowerfactorwhen its rotor is over excited.
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