what is power factor? whether it should be high or low? why?

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what is power factor? whether it should be high or low? why?..

Answer / pavan chelluri

Powerfactor is defined as the cosine angle between the
active power and apparentpower

P.F=KW(ActivePower)/KVA(ReactivePower)

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