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Problem asks the required capacitance to correct the power factor. 60Hz, 3-ph, 208V load of 200+150j. I got C = 9.2uF but the answer is 1/3 that. The answer uses the 208^2 divided by 50 (QVars/3) to find Xc then ultimately C. My question is why did the solution use the 3-phase voltage with the single phase portion of the load?

 
I don''t agree as of now since Line-Line voltage needs to be used with 3-ph load and Line-Neutral voltage needs to be used with 1-ph load. Please correct me if i'm wrong. 

 
Stephen2awesome said:
Problem asks the required capacitance to correct the power factor. 60Hz, 3-ph, 208V load of 200+150j. I got C = 9.2uF but the answer is 1/3 that. The answer uses the 208^2 divided by 50 (QVars/3) to find Xc then ultimately C. My question is why did the solution use the 3-phase voltage with the single phase portion of the load?
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see the below post for the same problem.

I think they got it wrong for this one.




 
Omer said:
see the below post for the same problem.

I think they got it wrong for this one.
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I've talked to my GT professor that is doing the PE review course and he said the problem is worded poorly. They mean the same load is across the A phase and the C phase. so Phase-Neutral and Phase C-Neutral. Simpler knowing that and the reason why they did that.

I'm not too sure about the one problem asking for the Vars to correct the PF to 1 and they used 50Vars in their calcs instead of 150Vars.

 

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