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Induction
Factories
Sinewave
AC general
AC Labs
100
The opposition to current flow presented by a coil
What is inductive reactance?
100
A factory in Fort Dodge that makes bird feed which is sold world-wide.
What is C&S Products?
100
The most common type of AC waveform
What is a sine wave?
100
The 3 types of loads found in AC circuits
What are Resistive, Inductive, and Capacitive loads?
100
An electronic device that emits visible light when forward biased.
What is an LED?
200
A unit of measure of inductance
What is the Henry?
200
An international company in Ames that produces pasta.
What is Barilla Pasta?
200
The maximum voltage level reached by a sine wave
What is V peak?
200
The useless power found in a capacitive or inductive circuit
What is reactive power?
200
A bulb that emits photons (light) when current heats up the filament.
What is an incandescent lamp?
300
Flux, conductor, and movement.
What is required to induce a voltage?
300
Of the 2 plants that produce ethanol and DDG cattle feed west of Fort Dodge, this is the oldest
What is Valero?
300
The level of AC voltage that produces the same amount of power as DC voltage.
What is RMS voltage?
300
The ratio of true power to apparent power
What is power factor?
300
A type of resistor used in high power applications.
What is a wire wound resistor?
400
Number of turns, strength of flux, and cutting speed.
What determines the amount of induced voltage in an inductor?
400
The factory in Waterloo that produces the best tractors in the world
What is John Deere?
400
An instrument that measures the amplitude and time of a voltage waveform.
What is an oscilloscope?
400
Time difference in 2 or more voltage or current sinewaves
What is phase shift?
400
A low voltage AC power source that has variable frequency and provides different wave forms, used in lab settings
What is a function generator?
500
The unit of measure of reactive power
What is VARs?
500
The plant in Humboldt that produces and sells hard salami to delis in New York
What is Ligueria Sausage?
500
The number of cycles per second
What is frequency?
500
To correct low power factors caused by inductive loads
What are capacitors used for in factory settings?
500
Read meter display carefully
What do you do when you are seeing the wrong value on your meter?