Talk:Leading and lagging current

Frequencies

Quote: "The only time that the voltage and circuit are in phase together is when they are both oscillating at equal frequencies". I think this is nonsense. The fact that they are out of phase does not mean that they are oscillating at different frequencies. Biscuittin (talk) 08:11, 13 May

I agree with Mr Biscuittin. Sunil256 (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Generally we only discuss phase if the frequencies match. However we do talk about things going "in and out of phase", for example beats, when two quantities have a very close frequency. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:53, 2 April 2015 (UTC).

Resistance

Quote: "Each of the main components of a circuit (Resistor, Capacitor, and Inductors) can be seen as a resistor. All of them produce resistance in either fractional or exponential ways." I disagree. The opposition presented by capacitors and inductors is impedance, not resistance. Biscuittin (talk) 08:17, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Here, also, I agree with Mr Bbiscuittin. Sunil256 (talk) 10:32, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Rewrite

Ok, somebody needs to completely rewrite this article and add some animations. One important term to describe here too is power factor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.226.68.16 (talk) 15:05, 25 January 2013 (UTC) for inductive

Generalized the description for primarily inductive and capacitive loads instead of just purely inductive and capacitive loads. motmot25

Added a short justification for why leading and lagging currents can be represented on a phasor diagram, and deleted the capacitance section because it was already stated in leading current. The introductory sentence about identifying leading or lagging was expanded in their respective sections to explain significance of signage on the theta value. isemC, Dec 8 2015 —Preceding undated comment added 01:27, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

The article needs to be restructured for a different reason: if the rather non-standard and over-elaborate angle notation stuff were omitted from the article, there'd be little substance left. It could/should then be merged into somewhere like Volt-ampere reactive. The topic just needn't be sliced and diced so finely. Sbalfour (talk) 23:53, 8 November 2017 (UTC)