While I know a lot about electricity and home/business wiring, when it comes to power distribution, I am not all that familiar. These giant capacitors are used in power distribution, but what do they actually do? Anyone know?
I have seen smaller varieties of these on power poles. They look like pole transformers, but the HV line just enters on insulator and exits the other one. I never knew why they are there..... They are only used on HV lines.
Hi, You can Google about it yourself. Believe it is used for power factor correction.
yep. Many electrical loads are inductive, and these capacitors counteract the inductive loads, allowing current and voltage to remain more in phase with each other, thus cutting down on wasted energy transmission and loss.
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