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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
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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