Calculating Capacitor currents

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• Subject: Calculating Capacitor currents
• From: Rodney Graham Davies <Rodney.Davies-at-anu.edu.au>
• Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 01:40:11 +1100 (EST)
• Subscriber: Rodney.Davies-at-anu.edu.au Mon Feb 3 21:31:21 1997

Hi again,

Say, is there anyway of calculting the current that the capacitors 
actually feed to the primary coil?

I have an idea, but not certain of its accurracy...

Say if we know the capacitive reactance of a cap bank, and we know the 
rms voltage they're working at, can we simply use I=V/R to work out the 
current?

I'm interested to know exactly how much power (in terms of VA/Watts) is 
actually going into the primary coil.

Then again, I don't think there would be a constant 'exact' figure, but 
perhaps an average would do.

Thoughts, ideas etc...

thanks,

Catchya!
Rod

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