The power factor tells you how much less power they are producing. For example, a power factor of 0.8 means your motor is only using 80 percent of the maximum available power.

In this example, the cosq would be close to 1, yet the overall power factor of a typical power supply might be 0.6 (Figure 2). Power factor is an important measurement for two main reasons.

Tips for troubleshooting capacitor banksThe good news is you can correct low power factor by adding power factor correction capacitors to the facility’s power distribution system. This is best ...

To develop offline power supplies that use PFC (power-factor correction), you must first understand the meaning of PFC and the regulations that surround the design of offline power supplies. PFC ...

One example is to incorporate nearly all the control functions for both a high-power-factor rectifier and a motor-control inverter in one device, including many of the analog functions. Another common ...

Readers will probably recall that inductive loads need two types of power: Working or real power, measured in kilowatts (kW), performs the actual work of creating heat, light, motion, and so forth ...

Power factor correction (PFC) converters are critical components in modern power electronics, designed to improve the efficiency and quality of power distribution by minimising harmonic distortion ...

This subplan seeks to address the ongoing demand for skilled power electronics design engineers. Switching power supplies, dc-dc converters, inverters, power factor correction converters and LED ...

TDK Corporation presents the new EPCOS TSM-LC-S thyristor module for dynamic power factor correction (PFC).