Power Factor Correction Examples (Full Lecture)

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good day and welcome to Big Bad Tech I'm instructor Jim Pytel and today's lecture is a series of Illustrated power factor correction examples the sector operates under the presumption the viewer is more than a passing familiarity with power factor correction as illustrated in the power factor correction lecture available at the big bad TAC Channel if

you haven't watched this lecture yet only dimly recall its contents please take the time to do so now let me remind you that power factor correction is a personal nemesis of many first-year electronic students not because power factor in and of self is so especially difficult but rather those students struggling with power factor correction

instead lack our prerequisite understanding a complex number math base or equivalence a/c Ohm's law calculation AC power calculation and distressingly enough basic algebraic manipulation if you lack solid understanding of any of this prerequisite material power factor correction will simply crush you if you are so qualified by all means proceed but if not go away and don't come back

until you know which end of the axe to hold and how to swing it for maximum effect mastery of power factor correction necessitates active participation on your part and as such I'm encouraging you to please pause the lecture when asked to do so and attempt the example problems on your own if your answers do not match those

illustrated by all means feel free to rewind the lecture and correct any mistakes you may have made our first Illustrated example problem features a 120 volt 60 Hertz AC source an electrical load model is a serious combination of a 55 ohm resistor and an inductor that happens to have a complex impedance of 25 ohms at an angle of 90