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    This document describes an activity to design an Arduino-based power factor meter. The objectives are to demonstrate designing a digital instrument to measure power factor and calibrating it using a commercial power factor meter. An Arduino, LM324 op-amp, diodes, and resistors are used to build a circuit to measure power factor. The output of the circuit is connected to an Arduino analog pin. A program is written and uploaded to the Arduino to display the power factor reading on an LCD screen. Through testing the circuit, it is concluded that the power factor meter designed functions properly in line with the theoretical concepts taught.

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    This document describes an activity to design an Arduino-based power factor meter. The objectives are to demonstrate designing a digital instrument to measure power factor and calibrating it using a commercial power factor meter. An Arduino, LM324 op-amp, diodes, and resistors are used to build a circuit to measure power factor. The output of the circuit is connected to an Arduino analog pin. A program is written and uploaded to the Arduino to display the power factor reading on an LCD screen. Through testing the circuit, it is concluded that the power factor meter designed functions properly in line with the theoretical concepts taught.

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    This document describes an activity to design an Arduino-based power factor meter. The objectives are to demonstrate designing a digital instrument to measure power factor and calibrating it using a commercial power factor meter. An Arduino, LM324 op-amp, diodes, and resistors are used to build a circuit to measure power factor. The output of the circuit is connected to an Arduino analog pin. A program is written and uploaded to the Arduino to display the power factor reading on an LCD screen. Through testing the circuit, it is concluded that the power factor meter designed functions properly in line with the theoretical concepts taught.

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    Saint Louis University

    School of Engineering and Architecture


    Department of Electronics Engineering

    The Power Factor Meter


    Activity No.8

    Modeling and Stimulation Laboratory Project

    7:30-10:30 TH H306

    SUBMITTED TO:
    ENGR. RAUL MABITAZAN
    The Power Factor Meter
    Activity No.8

    I. INTRODUCTION:

    Two different types of powers are associated with electric power system. Active power is
    consumed by load while Reactive power energizes capacitive as well as magnetic circuits. Reactive
    flows in system but it is not utilized. The utility companies restrict the flow of reactive power to a
    certain value. To determine the amount of reactive power, a quantity called power factor was
    introduced.

    Power factor is defined in two different ways. One is related to the flow of power in the
    system.

    It is the ratio of the active power to the total power of the system.

    Where as

    Also power factor is defined as cosine of angle between the voltage and current.

    Where Φ is the angle between voltage and current of the system.

    In this activity, an Arduino based distance meter which can measure power factor is
    designed.

    II. OBJECTIVE(S):

    1. This activity is intended to demonstrate how to design a basic single range digital
    instrument to measure power factor.
    2. This activity is also intended to demonstrate how to use a calibrated power factor
    measuring device to tune/calibrate the single range digital instrument to measure power
    factor.
    3. This activity is also intended to demonstrate the process of using EXCEL in selecting the
    “best fitted” equation to represent the set of power factor measurements which will then be
    integrated in the design of the single range digital instrument to measure power factor

    III. APPLICATION:

    1. An Arduino based power factor Meter is designed in this activity which can be used to
    measure power factor.
    2. The circuit can be extended to even monitor the value of power factor with slight
    modification in circuit and code.

    IV. SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

    V. EQUIPMENTS AND MATERIALS:

    Instrumentation and digital control systems experiment board


    IC LM324
    IC 7486
    4 Diode 1N148
    Resistor 1k ohm
    2 Resistor !M ohm
    Resistor 1 ohm / 1 W

    VI. PROCEDURES:

    1. Verify your connections:


    a. The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) to the Arduino Uno Board:
    - Pin 2 of the Arduino board to E pin of the LCD
    - Pin 3 of the Arduino board to RS pin of the LCD
    - Pins 4, 5, 6, 7 of the board to D4, D5, D6, D7 pin of the LCD
    b. Connect the circuit shown below. The output of this circuit, Vout, must be
    connected to pin A0 of your Arduino board.

    2. Open your Arduino IDE. Modify the program you encoded in testing the analog to digital
    conversion of the MCU.

    3. Download the assembled program to your MCU.


    PROGRAM LISTING :
    VII. OBSERVATION:

    In this experiment we have completed a power factor meter. Throughout the


    experiment, we have observed that the power factor circuit that we have assembled
    alongside with the Arduino program uploaded to the circuit works properly once it
    was done corrrectly. Also there is a great similarity between how the circuit functions
    in combination with the output reading of the Arduino module and the lectures that we
    have taken in circuits.

    VIII. CONCLUSION:

    We therefore conclude that the output reading of the Arduino module on the
    LCD along with the program that was uploaded to the module perceives the same
    properties on how the power factor is computed which is defined by the cosine of the
    angle between the voltage and the current on the cartesian plane and defines whether
    the power factor is lagging or leading or is in the state of “unity” or is equal to 1 which
    was the value used during our testing.

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