Re: induction motor power factor more than one

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 marke <tmempson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Power factor is the ratio of KW / KVA. It is not possible for the KW
> to be bigger than the KVA. If it was, there would be perpetual
> motion!! I would suggest that if this is a three phase motor, you have
> a wiring problem with the instrumentation.

Is Phil's misconception likely to go away if one thought of incident and 
reflected powers instead of power factor? RF engineers do that all the 
time. I cannot ever remember anyone ever talking about power factor in 
regard to RF. It is a bit easier to tune out the effect of mismatch with 
reactive loads at RF than at power frequency. On the other hand, it may 
be silly to talk about reflected power from nearby resistive loads at 
power frequency.

Bill