Q.13 Establish the condition to get wattless current in an ac circuit.

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The condition to get wattless current is having inductive and/or capacitive circuit i.e. Resistance in the circuit must be zero. In such case the power dissipated in the circuit would be zero . Hence wattless circuit. The power factor will be zero.
as Power factor = real power(in watts)apparant power(Volt-amps) and real power is zero here.

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?This happens in the case when the angle between the current and voltage is 900.

Now power P = VIcos900

so P = 0

hence the current here is known as wattless current.
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