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Discussion board help and admin topics => Half Baked Ideas => Topic started by: gsmsslsb on December 27, 2010, 05:22:50 AM
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Just a question.
If I put a capacitor in series with an inductor and a resistive load.
The capacitor being sized correctly to resonate at a given frequency.
If I can achieve resonance what would be the power factor across a resistive load.
At first I thought the power factor must be 1
as to achieve resonance capacitive reactance must equal inductive reactance but now I am not so sure. >:( >:(
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks GSM
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you were rirgt the first time, Xc=Xl Z=R for series.
the source sees only the R, I is in phase with E.
the C and L still have their own phase angles.
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reading the question again, the phase angle on a resister is always zero.
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To rephrase the question.
Can the power factor of a resonant circuit be anything other than 1
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no.