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Modern Electrical Installation for Craft Students, 3rd Edition
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Modern Electrical Installation for Craft Students, 3rd Edition

by Brian Scaddan
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
182 pages
6h 6m
English
Newnes
Content preview from Modern Electrical Installation for Craft Students, 3rd Edition
Inductors and inductance
Power
All the power (watts) in a circuit is dissipated in the circuit resistance.
The purely inductive part of the circuit consumes no power, it only
provides a magnetic field.
Consider the circuit shown in Diagram 23. We have already seen the
phasor diagram of the voltage in the circuit and developed a voltage
triangle from it. This time we multiply the voltage by the common
current (Diagram 24).
Diagram 24
But voltage χ current = power. Therefore the triangle becomes as
shown in Diagram 25.
This is called the power triangle but as the inductive part of the
circuit consumes no power, it is called the wattless component ...
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