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Hameedullah Ekhlas Power-User Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 187 Good Answers: 11	Shunt Capacitors and Reactive Power 03/18/2010 6:06 AM
	Greeting all, Usually shunt capacitors are connected to provide reactive power on the ac side of the converters. why?
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Anonymous Poster	#1 Re: Shunt capacitor 03/18/2010 6:36 AM
	The question is Whether you - don't want it on AC side (ie you want to compensate the reactive power on DC Side) - Don't want it at all. BTW: converters act by voltage chopping hence power factor will be usually ...
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Hameedullah Ekhlas Power-User Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 187 Good Answers: 11	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Shunt capacitor 03/18/2010 7:07 AM
	there are alot of things that we cant think
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