Total Motor Currents

[Melanie]

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?

Yes, absolutely correct.

Don't you all recall having to remember the word CIVIL at school? (referring to the fact that in a Capacitive C load, the current I leads the voltage V. In an inductive L load the voltage V leads the current I). Measure time difference between both (zero cross is easiest), simple math determines the rest.

[skimask]

Don't you all recall having to remember the word CIVIL at school?

I just saw that 'CIVIL' acronym at Wikipedia...never seen that one before, only 'ELI the ICE man'.
I've never had any sort of 'formal' electronic training, unless you count my USAF tech school (didn't learn anything there) or that 7 week Micro-Mini-Circuit-Card-Repair school I took about 18 months ago (learned almost too much there! and lost of a lot of bad habits!).

The Cap Banks - I just never put 2 and 2 together as far as those banks go. I guess I always thought they were transformer banks of some sort...

[Darrel Taylor]

"CIVIL"?

Never heard of it.

After this thread ... that was probably obvious.

[skimask]

"CIVIL"?
Never heard of it.
After this thread ... that was probably obvious.

A little more time down in K-town, and we might've heard of it eventually eh?