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	Subject - Correcting power factor pvrss1 Dear sir u r not responding to my question can have a attention on this reply at least since i have given a mail to u twice regarding the same subject which i am going to ask u now my question is : can u explain me what are the factors for improving the powerfactor thanking u pvrs subrahmanyam pvrss1@rediffmail.com or pvrss1@mail.yahoo.com Scott Vickrey I did recieve your emails. I do not answer electrical questions that belong on the forum via email. This defeats the purpose of the forum. Before I could reply to tell you this, I accidentally deleted everything in my inbox. Sorry about that. As for improving power factor. I can tell you that capacitors are commonly used to correct power factor problems caused by inductive loads like motors. It's very late here so here's some more information. http://www.psnh.com/Energy/ReduceBill_Business/PowerFactor.asp JimmyDee A big cause of low power factor is florescent lights. Most ballasts made today are PF corrected but the capacitors can go bad after time. Unloaded transformers are really bad as well as motors that have been over sized for what ever reason. Like has already been said, adding capacitance will improve the PF. That can be done by adding capacitors or a Synchronous motor that is setup for PF correction.