What is a var or kvar - reactive or imaginary power explained

[@navyretired230]

I had to watch this 2 dozen times for it to begin to sink in. Thank You

[@lenz03]

this intro made my day. Greetings from Italy

[@Morphasella]

you are amongst the best teachers in youtube alongside electro boom

[@JohnWilliams-qu8nr]

Well done folks, can't offer much to improve it! Thank you to the group of people who obviously had a clear goal of simplifying these concepts. It was particularly interesting and important, I think, to have the different visual analogies offered.....a very good instruction method.

[@kritishrivastava3602]

Best explaination ever. Thank you so much

[@jimmckelvey459]

I totally agree. Overall, this is a great video! I liked the high-stepping analogy and I plan on using that in the future to help explain reactive power.

[@reuvenmoshe6712]

ive been asking my teacher a millon times what kvar actually mean but she responde with no answer saying its not important thank you so much for explainig it in a very good way

[@rohitkasgar4840]

VAR/reactive power when viewed in the form of those power cycles which were initially shown,2 positive and 2 negative in one complete cycle(for purely inductive/capacitive) load. What do they represent in that waveform? Rms value of that waveform, avg value or what?

[@jonkocen]

So I think a KVAR for my home would only level out the incoming current instead of having spikes when my AC compressor turned on. The KVAR would make up the difference needed by the compressor starting, then "refill" when the AC is in run mode.

[@douglaswhalen629]

Eaton, thanks again for great content.

[@SampleroftheMultiverse]

I know a welding fabrication shop that has problems burning up motor and other electrical systems problems. Would a capacitor bank system with variable tabs help them? is that something you sell.

[@virtualtreadmillwalknature1488]

Such a great video! you guys are doing a great job!

[@EmilyShao-b4k]

Thanks for sharing the technology

[@jamminwrenches860]

My residential power provider has started charging for KvA which includes Vars. You stated power companies only charge large commercial for the wasted power. No even residential providers have learned a new way of increasing your electric bill without technically raising prices.

[@MsBlkz]

Great one love from India 🇮🇳

[@jaydeeppurohit3655]

Very nice explanation on reactive power...👏

[@3phaseman]

Thanks to all of team

[@new15ronaldo]

Very clear explanation. Thank you.

[@warrenandrews5202]

Very helpful!!!

[@ahmadmohmed4448]

@4:06 "Its easy to see the 120Hz power curve here because there are two complete power cycles for every one 60Hz Voltage Cycle"! where is that on the Graph?

[@kafeelahmed4671]

Great Explaination.

[@Haitao334]

Simple ! Either different PF in power calculation involve PF will be equal in KW "without cosider of Time". The power factor is the efficiency of performance. A 0.7 Pf is 70% of efficiency, another 0.98 is 98% efficiency. Imagine 2 biscuit machines with a 100 pcs/hour as reference with different pF. in production. An order in 980 biscults; 0.98 pf take 10 hour to complete the job, where a 0.7 pf take 12.256 hour to complete. Who is the winner instantly can be seen. By define of machine with manhour just can easily be explained as cost saving.

[@D.Hozzie]

Great video. Thanks.

[@ahmadmohmed4448]

@3:47 I don't understand why "Reactive power is also called Reactive Power".Because It does have a negative value! So what? It's supposed to be the multiplication result

[@khalidmorales3031]

Sir, needsyour help I need the illustrated power factor correction book, if you have kindly furnish one with my discounted price asap.

[@paulgirard3093]

Great content and video

[@mantaray4347]

Great Video!

[@kamelalshammari6249]

Great job

[@mostafakarandi363]

Very nice video because demonstrating with coceptual approching thanks a lot

[@lamemanlayman]

Is this why inverter ACs are energy saving? Because the condenser is running all the time (rather than repetitively starting/stopping), thus less reactive power consumed over time?

[@michaelbee8263]

Nah

[@klarnorbert]

It has nothing to do with that. ACs with inverters are using Variable Speed Compressors.

[@kennethmatthews8255]

So you all held a zoom from the same living/bed/dining room?

[@terencelai7]

Thanks for the explanations......

[@mikkelschler1288]

Someone was asked to clarify at 9:49... :D

[@sohailjanjua123]

Hi, I like your video. Thanks

[@rodmcmahon4829]

You say that the reactive power into a generator is only used to excite the field. This is wrong. The field is produced by DC not reactive AC. The generator supplies reactive power only by virtue of the load capacitance and inductance which alters the current phase wrt to the voltage phase

[@umairabbasi63]

He talked about motor and not generator. DC excitation is used in Generators to produce magnetic field which then moved by prime mover to produce rotating magnetic field

[@rodmcmahon4829]

See 5.28.

[@Techsupport243]

The intro made me lose brain cells, but the rest of the video was good.

[@dyson9422]

This isn't a definition, but it helps people understand, VAR is like the foam on glass on a mug of beer.

[@altuber99_athlete]

What, you’re asking a grandma and a kid what is reactive power? Lol. And reactive power is not imaginary, it’s real (as in a physical phenomena) and also a real number. In a two-terminal network or load operating in sinusoidal steady-state, the magnitude or absolute value of reactive power is the amplitude of the instantaneous reactive power, i.e. the maximum rate at which the oscillating energy flows. - 3:32 That’s not exactly apparent power. The product of instantaneous voltage and instantaneous current is instantaneous power, all of which are a function of time, and are the curves shown in the plot. Apparent power is the product of the RMS value of the instantaneous voltage and the RMS value of the instantaneous current.

[@okusitinotahitua1020]

best of all.... food digest very well here

[@PrimaAqute]

I 100 percent agree with you, and I try to make our people undrestand about VAR on My Channel, thanks for sharing

[@mjeezyca]

Great video! Showing this to my boss 9:36

[@JMPulido55]

Very instructional video but that background music is annoying (4:44+). I don't know what is the reason for adding such music but if you could, please do not include background music in your next videos. Some other viewers might like such music but I don't because it gets in the way of easily listening to the narrator.

[@RightToWright]

Thanks you

[@phironosurvivors2069]

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[@mikeadler434]

👍👍

[@reuvenmoshe6712]

but in the cable that comes to your house there is no kvar it's just a regular ac current, no?

[@gilbertvanheerswynghels5246]

Its VAR or kVar capital letters

[@jackjohansen770]

how did you get Mia Khalifa on the video

[@lynnasia5801]

✨👌

[@briankewber8233]

hi and thaks

[@lovemusik2836]

We have 50Hz power in Asian , 220VAC

[@SetTheCurve]

The attempts to simplify are more confusing than the actual explanation.

[@brianrosnell3250]

This video does not do a good job explaining this to someone who doesn't understand it. Lots of information very quickly without analogies or time to dissect the information. Useless.

[@jessicadymond1945]

Hi my my actual name IS KVAR no cap that is my birth name sooo hi my name is kvar wilson it’s crazy I know AND AND my nickname is var no cap

[@onazram1]

Just wow explained so clearly and with aids...

[@gregorykotoch5045]

Please talk faster next time. Also, make sure you take down the graphs before I have a chance to read them.

[@AkatoshGaming]

You can slow the video speed. It’s extremely necessary for videos like this

[@elgatoJNF]

I was really interested in watching this video, but the first 2 minutes were so stupid, I had to stop watching.

[@jinkhazama4114]

This explanation is not upto mark

[@comic4relief]

How so? Does not hold water?

[@jamiemarshall8284]

"Element doesn't have time to cool down or stop shining" - wrong - wrong wrong wrong.

[@TheGodpharma]

It seemed to make complete sense to me - what's the issue with that statement?

[@jamiemarshall8284]

@@TheGodpharma That's not how it works. Just take a slow motion video near light source that runs on AC power, it will be flickering off and on. This video is littered with small inaccuracies that do make serious differences when engineering

[@TheGodpharma]

@@jamiemarshall8284 if it’s a gas discharge or LED light then you’re certainly right, but a filament lamp - I don’t think so, for the reason he gave. Wouldn’t you agree that a hot filament would have to cool down in order to dim and flicker, and how can that happen 50 or 60 times a second?

[@shashikumar2419]

thank you