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Power factor correction — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 00.250.500.75110100load resistance (ohms)power factorno capacitorsized here: pf 1.000000leading above 21 Ωthe 0.95 an installation is usually required to holdsolved, then checked — 61 loads, one capacitorexact at 20 Ω, 0.23 elsewhere

    The capacitor that was right once

    Cancelling a load's reactive power needs one division and no iteration, and the answer is exact. It is exact for the load it was computed from, at the frequency it was computed at, and the figure here is about what it does everywhere else — which includes making the installation worse than it was before anything was fitted.

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