Exam-hall rules, one feeder
This is the boss. No calculator — today , the number every electrician keeps in their head, and the values are chosen to fit in yours. One feeder, one long problem, and every answer feeds the next: the real power on the line, then the month's kilowatt-hours, then the dollars at 10 ¢, then the capacitor bank that would trim the reactive leg away. Write each line down as you go — one early slip rolls all the way to the invoice.
One gift, already in the numbers: at a power factor of 0.80 the triangle is the 3-4-5, so exactly. The last line needs no trigonometry at all, only that fraction.
Everything in the chapter rides on this one feeder — the √3, the meter, the tariff and the triangle. 5★ under par here is the chapter crown. Clock in.
- = Real power (power)
- = Line-to-line voltage (voltage)
- = Line current (electric current)
- = Power factor
- = Energy (energy)
- = Power (power)
- = Time (time)
- = Energy cost (money)
- = Energy consumed (energy)
- = Energy rate (cost per energy)
- = Correction reactive power (var) (power)
- = Load real power (power)
- = Existing power factor
- = Target power factor
no calculator in the boss room — the numbers are chosen to fit in your head