"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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Gunner wrote:
Any idea of how to calculate the amount of capacitance needed to
reduce idle current in a single phase 220 welder?


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Real current and imaginary current are electrical engineering terms.
Imaginary
current can burn up a wire just like real current, it just doesn't show up
on
your power meter.


If so, then balancing isnt going to lower the operating costs anyways.....

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