Quote Originally Posted by Melanie View Post
In large industrial installations, you are supposed to switch-in banks of Capacitors in the plant room to keep the Power Factor within limits set by the electric company if it is distorted by large amounts of (inductive load) machinery.
What kind of cap's are we talking about here? Are we talking about those huge oil filled jobs (not the transformers, I know what those are), switched in and out with a huge set of contactors at will by a 'Power Factor Controller' or something to that effect?