Reader response to the last installment of Analog Domain (Reference 1) has been both strong and informative-so much so that I'd like to share some of the feedback with you. One reader asks whether home and business owners can borrow compensation schemes that industrial sites exploit, specifically, compensation capacitors for inductive loads. This kind of apparatus works well in industrial applications because the loads are essentially large, fixed, and predictable. Still, the industrial-plant operator must bear the cost of the switching apparatus and of the capacitor bank to abide by standard terms that utilities impose on such customers.
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