Megawatt Inrush And Small Generators
In the interests of accuracy I have copied John Marles, comments verbatim and they appear below "Inrush is 50A/115VAC 50A/230VAC for a few milliseconds on the S-400 and S-350. Its controlled by due...
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LScamper wrote:
"So when the pushbutton switch is pressed the capacitor will charge up"
I thought that a capacitor across an AC source would just act as a load with current leading the voltage by 90 degrees and no power dissipated. Did not know that it would charge up and hold that charge until discharged into a parallel load. Learn something new every day!
I thought is charged and discharged at the freq of the AC, like 60 times a second., I thought its purpose is to reduce torque of a starting spinning thingy & reduce pf by shifting the voltage/current waves.
