Powerfactor measurement

Am working on a project that require accurate powerfactor measurement. Is the value of power factor calculated by ratio of realpower by apparent power accurate? As far as i came to know emonlib library measures rective power as product of the Root-Mean-Squared (RMS) average of the Voltage and the RMS average of the Current. Will this cause error in powerfactor readings?

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

Robert Wall's picture

Re: Powerfactor measurement

"Is the value of power factor calculated by ratio of realpower by apparent power accurate?"

Not only accurate, it is the DEFINITION ! ! !

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