AGE Induction Lighting reaches incredible THD and Power Factor values

The continous activities of AGE Induction Lighting’s R&D division keep on bringing excellent results, in terms of yield, consumption and duration with a very low environmental and economical impact and safeguard of the Visual Comfort and Health.

Here a copy of the latest third party certified results related to Power Factor and THD of AGE CH200D:  

1006A-CL4014-17-07I – UK

The results are incredibly good:

– THD: Voltage=1,040% –  Current=1,560%

– POWER FACTOR (cosφ) = 0,994 to 0,995

What is the THD?

The Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is a measurement that tells you how much of the distorsion of a voltage or of a current is due to harmonics in the signal.

In power systems, lower THD means reduction in peak currents, heating, emissions, and core loss in motors.

Therefore a low THD means higher power factor, lower peak currents, lower heating and higher efficiency.

What is the Power Factor?

The Power Factor is the ratio of the real power that is used to do work and the apparent power that is supplied to the circuit. The power factor can get values in the range from 0 to 1. The loss of energy from systems with Power Factors less than 1.0, is sometimes referred to as Reactive Power.

The higher the Power Factor the higher is the efficiency, the lesser are the losses and the lowest is the energy consumption.

For example: when a system has a Power Factor of 0,50, this means that there is a difference in the measured watts of the load and demand it places on the current capacity of the power supply of 50%, so e.g. a 100W load with a power factor of 0.50, produces a 200VA demand on the power grid. Since VA is what is produced by the utility system, for the purposes of the impact of a lighting system on the power grid, VA is an important metric, as it represents the current demand placed on generating plants, which increases losses throughout the supply grid.

Power factor issues caused by lighting loads using electronic switching cycle power supplies can create high harmonic distortion power factor losses not as easily resolved. For this reason and others, THD may be as important, or more important than the resulting PF.  The relationship between PF and THD are roughly tied together.

THD is a more complex issue than Power Factor, as there are so many variables in frequency, distortion shape, etc.. that interaction between products can create compound issues on a circuit and building system as a whole, if not fully resolved.

Both Power Factor and THD have a direct impact on ROI (Return of Investement), therefore it is important to take into consideration the real values before to calculate any investement in new lighting, in order to avoid any bad surprises.

Those are some of the reasons why AGE induction lighting has the best performance also in the most extreme conditions.

With AGE Induction Lighting, with a very low THD and a very high Power Factor, you save more energy, you have less losses, the product works for a longer time, with less maintenance and quicker return of investement, with less impact on Health and Environment.

AGE Induction Lighting are built to survive in hash, high demand applications with dynamic power environments.

AGE – WE DO ADVANCED GREEN ECONOMY