EE 212 Lab
Prelab 5: Power Factor Compensation
- For the circuit shown in figure 1 of the lab, determine the following:
- load impedance ZL
- load power factor angle
- load power factor
- complex power absorbed by the load
- expected time shift between load voltage and current
- Determine the value of a capacitor C that when placed in parallel with
the original load impedance (see figure 2) yields an equivalent power
factor of 1. What is the value of this equivalent impedance? What do we
expect for the load voltage and current, and their relationship to
the source voltage.