Timeline for Would an AC induction motor rotate if the power factor were unity?
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| Dec 23, 2018 at 3:27 | comment | added | user57037 | The power factor of a motor is a side effect of how it is constructed. Some places that run lots of big motors DO use capacitors to bring the power factor back closer to 1. | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 2:33 | answer | added | Britt Kelly | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 20:05 | answer | added | Charles JOUBERT | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 0:05 | comment | added | Chu | It's possible to achieve unity pf with a parallel capacitor, but remember that the voltage across the resistive part of the load will always be less than the supply voltage. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 19:13 | vote | accept | user1245 | ||
| Dec 18, 2018 at 18:57 | answer | added | user16222 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 18:22 | answer | added | TimWescott | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | user1245 | Unity can be achived by compensation; isnt it? | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | user103380 | I believe you're asking something that's completely impossible because of the laws of physics. If capacitance and inductance never existed, you could achieve unity. If money wasn't an issue, we could provide unity as well. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 17:46 | answer | added | Dave Tweed | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 17:35 | history | asked | user1245 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |