Technical Articles

• What is Power Factor?
  
  
• Why should we improve our Power Factor?
  
  
• How do you improve Power Factor?
  
  
• Effects of Voltage Unbalance on Motor Performance
  
  
• Guidelines for Motor Surge Protection
  
  
• Line/Load Reactor Applications
   
• Delta Connected Capacitors vs Wye Connected Capacitors
  
  

Published Articles & Presentations

• A Word of Caution (Single-Conductor Cables Can Act As Harmonic Distortion From Non-Linear Loads)
  Electrical Business Vol. XXXII No.2, February, 1997
   
• What You Don't Know May Hurt You ("start logging your problems", advises this specialist)
  Electrical Business Vol. XXX No.9, September, 1994
   
• Power Quality and the Office Building
  Energy Manager Magazine, March 1997
   
• Power Quality
  Presentation for Energy Management Conference, October 2007
   
• Get The Measure of Your Enemy (if you have harmonics you should be able to measure it)
  Electrical Business Magazine

 

Downloadable PDFs

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Energy Management Series

Harmonics (465kB)

Power Factor (979kB)

 

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