what is power factor
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Answer / mahendran
power factor is cosine angle between current and voltage
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Answer / mahendran
the ratio between real power to apparent power
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Answer / sajwan
it is the degree of matching of the load impedance with
the pure resistive load
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Answer / baloch
It shows, how efficient your power system is..
0.9 Power Factor shows, your existing Power System is 90%
Efficient.
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Answer / sanjana singh
phase angle b/w current and voltage is called power factor and the ratio of real power and apparent power also called power factor.
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