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Siva Shankar
sir u have biven best examples<br /> and i have one dought how we r going to get 1.169 value<br /> From Table 1, Multiplier to improve PF from 0.65 to unity (1) is
1.169

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Electrical Technology
Check in the table… the existing PF is 0.65 and required one is unity (i.e, 1)<br />so the connecting point number between these two numbers (i.e, 0.65
and 1) is 1.169. this is multilier…<br />or<br />you can find it easily by scientific calculator as;<br />θ1 = Cos-1 = (0.65) = 49°.45; Tan θ1 = Tan (41°.24) =
1.169<br />θ2 = Cos-1 = (1) = 0°; Tan θ2 = Tan (0°) = 0<br />(Check solution number

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Required Capacitor kVAR = P (Tan θ1 – Tan θ2)

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Nice Article.<br /><br />Can you also teach us on how to size up the capacitors in capacitor start – capacitor run motor?<br /><br />Thanks..

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kalpesh gauswami
sir …could u plzz help me on this topic – transformer protection with wireless alert (gsm based)??

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Abdul Afraaz Khan

sir, i need your help in calculating the kvar, the power factor and also the capacitor size together with how many step power factor board should i make. iam very new
to this so i need your help as soon as possible so that i can quote for the job.
details are as follows:
1) volts – 3300v
amps – 107amps x2
kw – 525kw

2) volts – 3300
amps – 101amps x2
kw – 485kw

3) volts – 415v
hp – 20hp x3

4) volts – 415v
hp – 20hp x3

your help will be highly appreciated.

thanks 
Abdul
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Nemrod P. Baterna
How to compute required capacitor voltage, Farads for an 8 KW alternator

Please help, I have an 8 kW generator that don’t produce output voltage, when tested, a capacitor I believe acts as a voltage regulator don’t reads any farads value.
“INFINITY”. Any specs/ratings that supposed to be the in the capacitor body was erased due to advance rusting.

Generator components is still good as it was maintain properly, it’s only this capacitor part need to be replaced. Your help is highly appreciated.

Sincerely Yours,

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redafarahat
i thank you for the valuable information about PF calculations

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Steve
A friend has an AirFoxx 4000a carpet dryer that burnt up it’s Cap and most of wires. I assume it was a start Capacitor as it’s plastic with epoxy. Was hoping you could
help me find out what size is needed to replace it.
This thing cost around $400 bucks but the company that made them is defunct.
It is a 120volt 60hz three speed motor. 4 pole 1HP amps are 8,9 and 11 amps.
There is no info left on the Cap as it was fried real good.
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Any Help appreciated.

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Bishan Kumar Bhatnagar

I want to know how many kvar capacitor bank would be required for 200 kw 3 phase 4 wire load to achieve a pf of 0.9 from.08 lagging for my office

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Abdullah Haseeb Rana

hi Bro,
According to my Calculations you need 53kVAr.

Connected Load 200 kW

Voltage 400 v
Current PF 0.8 %
Desired PF 0.9 %
Orginal kVA 250.00 kVA
Desired kVA 222.22 kVA
Acutal kVAr 150.00 kVAr
Desired kVAr 96.86 kVAr
Improverd kVAr 53.136 kVAr
Capacitor Value 1062.71 uF

so you can use it in (6 x 10)kVAr for your load

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Manoj Singh
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Dear Mr. Rana
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Kindly suggest for APFC Panel

as we have 150KW load we need PF to 0.9.

Kindly inform KVA……..?

KVAR……..?
Capacitor Value…..?
How may stage KVAR to be used.

Regards

Manoj

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iyappan.p
you can use 16.81 kvar capacitor to improve the pf 0.9 from 0.8

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Gopala
Sir
Please specify a suitable capacitor specification to be installed for a load of 20 hp as the earlier capacitor is malfunctioning with a power factor of 0.8

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kasozi
sir, I want to know how to calculate a suitable size of a cable for a motor. thanks 

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Fabion Chihanga
want to know step by step of calculating the capacitance required to bring pf to a certain angle.thank you

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Param
An audit for one firm showed that the power factor is almost 70% and that the demand is 1000kw.
What capacitor size is need to correct power factor to 90%?

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Abdullah Haseeb Rana

you need 535.882 kVAr for your load

Connected Load 1000 kW

Voltage 400 v
Current PF 0.7 %
Desired PF 0.9 %
Orginal kVA 1428.57 kVA
Desired kVA 1111.11 kVA
Acutal kVAr 1020.20 kVAr
Desired kVAr 484.32 kVAr
Improverd kVAr 535.882 kVAr
Capacitor Value 10717.64 uF
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So you can use (2 x 200 + 2 x 100 + 2 x 25) = 650 kVAr

with 6 stage PFI Controller

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khalid
Hello

Could you help in the following:

Single Phase
220V Motor
Efficiency 78%
hp 7.5 PF 0.8
Frequency 50HZ

What value of Capacitor is required to improve PF from 0.8 to 1?

Also, how to identify this 7.5 hp is which power among P, Q and S?

Thanks

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raju
Sir g mere ghar ke merar PR capicoter panal lagaya h MFD capisctor ke sath koi tarak nhi PDA please help kro signal phase
ka meter normal Jo ghro m hora h kon kon se capiicoter use kru

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converte uf microfare para kvar

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Raninder
Hey Tyrone,Great info for home owners and DIY’s, but I’m wdeonring if you could do a demo on the neutral strap (when it’s needed or not) for us apprentices. I would
like to benefit from your experience.Thanks again for your efforts.Regards,Sean

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pavan Kalyan
Sir
How much rating kvar is to be adopted for getting 0.9 pf of 33 hp load of 0.8 pf ( industry)

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arun agrawal
is the formula is same for calculating kvar of a capacitor for two phase and three phase voltage

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great great , it was very helpfull and clear, big thanks to you bro.

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NITESH
i made pf corrector but i have some dought becous i made pf corrector for 230 volt
what voltage rating cap i chose and its electrolatic

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Nsamba Grace
its very faterstic,thx.

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Ebenezer Ansah
Dear Sir,

I would like to ask for your help to solve the question below. Thank you very much. I have been following your articles and I must confess that you are genius. Keep it
up. I wish you all the best.
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Question: A 11/0.433kV, 100kVA distribution transformer of 4.25% impedance is supplying a load of 0.6 power factor. It is required that the power factor be improved
by a four – step capacitor bank. Reactive Power of each step of the capacitor bank is 50kVars.

i. Calculate resonant frequency (in harmonic order) of the circuit at every step of the capacitor bank.

ii. A measured harmonic content of the above circuit is given in Table-1 below. At what step of the capacitor bank is resonance condition possible and why.

Harmonic order Fundamental 3rd 5th 7th 9th 11th

Current (A) 35 16 13 9 7 3

Calculate the current total harmonic distortion of the circuit.

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Edgar A. de Vila
Sir,

We need your help to calculate the correct capacitor to complete a three phase power.

We have asingle phase power source at 220 v, single phase, 60 cycles. We want to connect our three phase motor to the single phase. What capacity of capacitor to 
be installed in the third line to have a three phase line & connect our three phase motor whichh is a three phase, 220v, 60 cycles.

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We need your assistance.

Thanks.

Ed

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BABUBHatt
In domestic House with three AC of 1.5 Ton (1800 W), 01(1000 W) T and 1 Ton (1000 W) ,Washing MC,Fridge 8 Light ,6 Fan etc. 220 V,50 Hz.
Load from 350 KWH to 900 KWH in Summer

Can anyone advice the Capacitor Rating and connection et,,canbe connected ccan reduce the billing ,Size etc

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pasha
sir
0.75pf u r said 41.41 deg : cos(0.75) =41.41Deg
09pf u r said 25.84 deg : cos(0.9) =25.84Deg
pl tell me how to calcuate degree

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pasha
how to calcuate Deg for Pf
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gurbaj singh
sir i have 24 hp three phase electric motor and 19 kw load how much kvar requiered for this motor

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Harrison
Hi there.I have a load of 124.5 kW.with a power factor of 0.78 .kindly assist to know how many capacitors and ratings needed to improve the power factor to 0.96.

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abdullah Khan
124.5x.512=capacitor
63 kvar

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ahmed
thanks my friend

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sunil sethi
hello sir
for 12 kwh motor rpm 950

exixting power factor is 0.25

how much kvr capacitor is required, plz reply

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sunil sethi
hello sir
for 12 kwh (three phase connection ) motor rpm 950

exixting power factor is 0.25

how much kvr capacitor is required, plz reply

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RAJESH M
DEAR SIR,

WE HAVE 120 HP LOAD CAPACITY OF TORRENT POWER METER. ACTUALLY, WE ALREADY CONNECTED 70 KVA CAPACITOR BANK BUT IN METER
SHOW (P.F IS 0.500 TO 0.650).PLEASE SUGGEST HOW TO IMPROVE P.F TO 1.

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Ali Azam
How can i calculate the PFI for over all factory . Load Such as 2000 Kw.

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Jalandar shankar adhav

70HP ,लोड आहे PF 0.47 ,िपएफ .0.98 कर ासाठी िकती kar capacitor जोडावे लागले

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BHUPENDRA SINGH
Where to connect capacitors to improve pf in an electric panel, a vcb 850A is connected in its input, and then power is distributed in 8 mccb 100A and divided to
different loads. where I connect capacitor vcb’s input or output where is suitable switch input or output. Suggest

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swamy
Dear sir.
My load is inductive load ( 2 Phase resistance welding Machine)
550HP ,Load daily mainten PF 0.78 ,my required PFn is .0.99 How much KVAR required in my APFC panel (How to mainten lead and lag as per MSEB new rules)
please suggest.

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Nann Htike
Example no.4, two 48microF capacitor to connect parallel means total microF will be 96 needed? My opinion, the result of 48microF need to be divided by 2 (final
result will be 24microF for each capacitor) as two capacitor will connect parallel(Ct = C1 + C2)

According used formula this is as same as no.2 of example 3 with only one capacitor which needed value.

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Nann Htike
Sorry, my bad.
A capacitor must be connected parallel with the load, and it not two capacitors connected in parallel. 🙂
Please ignore my above question.

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