Low power factor reduces an electrical system’s distribution capacity by increasing current flow. Therefore, having a low power factor is inefficient and expensive. But what is power factor and what ...

The CS5467 is a watt-hour meter on a chip. It measures line voltage and current and calculates active, reactive, apparent power, energy, power factor, and RMS voltage and current.The CS5467 is a ...

Understanding power factor (PF) is important because it gives us a clear understanding of the efficiency of an electrical system. Put simply, it’s the ratio of true power and apparent power, which ...

Your utility Power Factor is the ratio of the system’s Real Power and the Apparent Power (Eq. 1, Fig. 1). This unitless factor ranges from −1 to 1. The Power Factor ratio aptly describes the type of ...

The MAXQ3180 and MAXQ3183 are polyphase multifunction energy measurement analog front-ends (AFEs) with many advanced power-monitoring features such as power factors, vector sum, and harmonic ...

Most discussions on manufacturing energy efficiency focus on identifying easy-to-find-and-fix energy wasters such as compressed air leaks, inefficient lighting, equipment that is always left on when ...