Motor current imbalance and low power factor
Motor current imbalance and low power factor
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One of the motors at our plant is experiencing current imbalance and I think it had caused feeder line cutout to blow a few times. at the same time, I noticed that when running this motor, we have a fairly low PF (lagging) of 0.4. Could this low PF contribute anything to the current imbalance??





RE: Motor current imbalance and low power factor
Low power factor usually indicates a very lightly loaded motor.
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RE: Motor current imbalance and low power factor