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Article #4071Power Factor
From: charles.a.sherwood
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 18:57
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 18:57
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Someone stated that they did not know of any equipment that caused a capacitive power factor. One of the engineers in our power supply group told me that switch mode power supplies have a capacitive factor of about .65 due to the low conduction angle. This would imply that any electronic equipment that uses a switch mode power supply would have a has a capacitive power factor. This would include PCs, computer terminals and maybe even your TV. How would an office building that has a few hundred terminals correct for this? Big inductors? chuck sherwood
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewse!sherwood From: sherwood@cbnewse.ATT.COM (charles.a.sherwood) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Power Factor Keywords: Capacitive Message-ID: <12525@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Jan 90 18:57:50 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 10