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nobody talking about switching PS wasting power on input filter caps?
Ice-Tea:
Haven't heard of any place that charges residential customers for reactive power, but as some others have pointed out the advent of 'smart' meters may lead to that.
soldar:
Let us not confuse the speed with the bacon.
Reactive power is one thing. Power factor is a different thing. They are loosely related.
A capacitor or an inductance across the line consume reactive power. This means they take power, store it and return it to the network. This means a power factor of less than unity.
A rectifier bridge followed by a capacitor does not consume any reactive power. At all. None. It keeps everything it gets and returns nothing. And yet has a bad power factor.
Ice-Tea:
--- Quote from: soldar on August 23, 2019, 04:50:57 pm ---Reactive power is one thing. Power factor is a different thing. They are loosely related.
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Loosely? :o
stefon:
> A capacitor or an inductance across the line consume reactive power. This means they take power, store it and return it to the network. This means a power factor of less than unity.
I don't get it, it is AC, so current flows thru cap, so it is wasting power, because it is shorting L to N.
> A rectifier bridge followed by a capacitor does not consume any reactive power. At all. None. It keeps everything it gets and returns nothing. And yet has a bad power factor.
i don't care about caps after bridge.
soldar:
--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on August 23, 2019, 06:30:10 pm --- Loosely? :o
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In the sense that there is not a biunivocal relation. Reactive power lowers power factor. So do non linear loads. The problem is not reactive loads. The problem is low power factor, whatever the cause.
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