On Jan 10, 10:55 am, Gene Fuller wrote:
.. You never give up, do you? Even when you are caught in an utter
lie. You
know exactly what the capacitors are for, and it isn't to control
transmission line reflections from open ends of the line.

I'm sorry, Gene, but I cannot alleviate your ignorance with one
posting. Given a voltage phasor and a current phasor with a phase
angle between them, there is absolutely no way to distinguish between
a mismatch and a reflection. The purpose of those power factor
capacitors on the power line poles is to turn those transmission lines
into money-making traveling wave delivery systems rather than allow
money-losing standing wave systems. Please stop your emoting long
enough to realize what I have said is true.

If the capacitors were not there, the inductive loads would cause
reflections just as they do on an RF transmission line. The only
difference is that the 60 Hz transmission line is a small fraction of
a wavelength. If you scaled the 60 Hz system to 6 MHz, all the same
laws of physics would apply and the similarities would be readily
apparent.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com