What meant by lagging and leading? When if they are occurred what preventive m

What meant by lagging and leading? When if they are
occurred what preventive methods should be taken?

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What meant by lagging and leading? When if they are occurred what preventive methods should be tak..

Answer / sugali. anjineyulu naik.

the terms LAGGING and LEADING in electrical engineering
indicate that the amount of time settiling required to be
overcome all the field effects either in inductor or capacitor.

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Answer / aravinda

consider voltage and current as phasors, angle between voltage and current is positive then leading (in case of capacitive loads) viceversa for lagging (in case of inductive load)

prevent lagging by parallal connecting capacitor banks or over excited synchronous motor

no need to prevent leading pf,

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Answer / baba

leading means current leadig the voltage if we take a anti
clock wise direction,,lagging means current is behind the
voltage by some angle if we take a anticlockwise
direction,,generally for inductive loads leading is
seen,,and for capacitative loads lagging is seen

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