What is the power factor?

bashir varsi

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• Jun 14th, 2009

Power factor is the ratio of active power to apperant power. for better energy efficiency it should be unity.  

jeet29

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• Jun 8th, 2009

Power Factor means that what amount of the power the circuit is using. If the power factor is .807 that means circuit is using 80.7% of power and the remaining 19.3% is returning back to supplying source.

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