Plot of voltage and current waveforms for "solder fume extractor" fan.

Voltage in red, current in blue. Current lags behind voltage

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CF Bulb: current leads voltage. Spiky indicative of switching supply.

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Laptop power supply. This supply often sparks when I plug it in. Here it shows a huge inrush current, then low current, then the battery in the laptop starts charging and current increases.


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You can also see that this is a switching supply. Current draw is closer to the phase of power than the cf bulb.


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40 Watt bulb:

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70 Watt bulb:

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