Reactance Power Calculations

Hi, I am studying a project that measures the reactance power. Additionally defines the capacitive and inductive reactance power. I just added some lines the existing emon library but I dont know how to define capacitve and inductive reactance power. Is it possible to do that with that circuit and emon library?

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/buildingblocks/how-to-build-an-arduino...

Thanks

Robert Wall's picture

Re: Reactance Power Calculations

In short - no.

If you study the way that emonLib works, there is no means of extracting the imaginary component of the current, which I think is what you are asking for.

You need to delay the voltage waveform by 90° electrical then perform the multiplication of current and (delayed) voltage followed by taking the average to give vars, in exactly the same way that real power is calculated. The 3-phase sketch delays the voltage wave by 120° & 240°, so you can do it in a similar way.

fatopato's picture

Re: Reactance Power Calculations

How can I delay voltage? Should I add new elements to circuit?

Robert Wall's picture

Re: Reactance Power Calculations

I would do it in software. Read what I wrote above.

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