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Flash18
Apr 3, 2009
Been reading through this, I'm an EE student, and admittedly I have trouble wrapping my head around the concept of reactive power.

I assumed reactive power was essentially power used to drive a load up to the required voltage, which makes the 'bounce backed to the source' explanation confusing to me. Would someone be able to elaborate?

So from there, what effect does a lagging power PF have? and leading for that matter, as a consequence for supplying power? I understand that in both cases, assuming constant apparent power, introducing reactive power will decrease the active power load using the triangle... but what's the actual non-conceptual effect?

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