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Use active PFC to boost motor efficiency (Part 2)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: motor efficiency  PFC active  energy savings 

[Summary of tips] Active power factor correction (PFC) can achieve very high power factors—0.98 and above—with reasonably sized components, although the energy efficiency may be slightly lower than with passive techniques (94 per cent compared with 96 per cent, for example) due to the addition of switching components.In one of the si......
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