What meant by lagging and leading? When if they are
occurred what preventive methods should be taken?

Answer Posted / nimish

it is a power facotr. Lagging means currents lags behind
the applied voltage by some angle and leading means current
leads the applied voltage by some angle. to improve the
power factor we should use a capacitor bank in parallel
with inductive load.

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