Let's turn on the lamp and see what the startup current looks like. Holy cow! 4.4A! That means that it's using 121.6V x 4.4A = 535W! Let\'s figure out the power factor at startup. Power Factor = W / VA = 150 / (121.6 x 4.4) = 0.28! That means that only 28% of the power is being used by the lamp. Let's not forget that it's normal for HID lamps to draw more juice at startup. Therefore, the lamp is probably drawing more than 150W and is skewing our power factor calculation. So let's let it run for a while....
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