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|    Artem Bondarenko to Dani...@teranews.com    |
|    Re: Power factor, UPS, computer    |
|    05 Jan 14 05:38:49    |
      From: artem.bond@gmail.com              On Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:01:21 PM UTC+2, Dani...@teranews.com wrote:       > connected to a resistive-capacitive-inductive load. So the phase shift,       > reflected back from the secondary winding into the primary winding will,       >       > almost certainly, not be 1, i.e. purely resistive.              The phase shift (cos(fi)) in not THD (total harmonic distortion). The computer       have a truly active load. But this active load in not linear. This do non -       sinusoidal current. Non-sinusoidal current = Harmonic distortion.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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