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Posted by David Bridgen (213.78.98.206) on December 28, 2002 at 11:35:47:
In Reply to: pmpo vs rms posted by RAGHU on December 27, 2002 at 02:13:41:
Time and time again I see people referring to r.m.s. power, and time and time again I see people correcting, as I am about to do yet again, the confusion.
The product of r.m.s. voltage and r.m.s. current, (i.e. Vrms x Irms), is equal to AVERAGE power, NOT r.m.s. power. There is NO SUCH THING as r.m.s. power.
Yet people doggedly cling to their misconceptions and propogate the myth. Part of the trouble is that no-one likes to have their cherished beliefs challenged and most of them refuse to accept that they could, even possibly, be wrong.