6. You are an electrician working in an industrial plant. You are building a motor control cabinet that contains six motor starters and six pilot lamps. All control components operate on 120 volts AC. Two of the motor starters have coil currents of 0.1 amperes each and four have coil currents of 0.18 amperes each. The six pilot lamps are rated at 5 watts each. The supply room has control transformers with the following rating (in volt-amperes): 75, 100, 150, 250, 300, and 500.

Which of the available control transformers should you choose to supply the power for all the control components in the cabinet?

An external consultant recommends that a plant installs a bank of capacitors for power factor correction. this will reduce the peak electrical demand charges by an average of 93 kw every month. the plant current pays $13 per kw in peak demand charges. the capacitor bank will include 223 kw of fixed capacitors, and 183 of variable capacitors. the fixed capacitors cost $59 per kw, and the variable capacitors will cost $65 per kw. the consultant charges 21% of the equipment costs to install the capacitors. because this project will reduce the demand for the electric utility, they are prepared to provide a one-time rebate of $42 per kw of reduced demand. what is the simple payback period for this project (in years)?