A lighting load of 2 MW and a motor load of 4 MW at 0.8 pf lagging are  supplied by two alternators operating in parallel. If one of them is  delivering a load of 2.4 MW at 0.95 pf lagging, what will the output and pf  of the other alternator.

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Problem 1RQ: What conditions must be met before two alternators can be paralleled together?
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 A lighting load of 2 MW and a motor load of 4 MW at 0.8 pf lagging are  supplied by two alternators operating in parallel. If one of them is  delivering a load of 2.4 MW at 0.95 pf lagging, what will the output and pf  of the other alternator.

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