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Thanks for your answer. At my location, the electric company charges a penalty for a power factor under 0.80 and gives a credit on the bill if the power factor is 0.90 or above. I've been studying up on this a lot more and I think I understand how it works. A inductive load causes the...

A few nights ago, the pole on the side of the road that holds our transformer snapped, the transformer exploded and set the pole on fire. In my plant we were running on 2 out of 3 phases for a while until we completely lost power. Now here's the "weird" thing... Just about every motor...

Hi there, I'm not an expert on electricity by a long shot but I do understand most of the basics (i.e. AC voltage follows a sine wave, etc. etc.). Anyway, I'm helping my company analyse the data we're gathering from our various utility meters and our electricity meters are giving us a reading...