RE: control panel measurments

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

At 08:04 AM 3/1/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>
>Thanx for the input.
>It rings a bell from my electronics school days but I seem to have lost
>most of it.
>
>Out of curiosity if the load seen by the source were purely inductive
>and the pf was zero can the inductive load do any work?  Like say it
>were a motor or .............
>
>Seems that if the true power were zero then there would be no power to
>be put to work.


Exactly true... reactive power can do no "real work"