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Posted by KC (166.102.175.109) on December 28, 2002 at 23:02:58:
In Reply to: Re: pmpo vs rms posted by David Bridgen on December 28, 2002 at 11:35:47:
: 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.
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: 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.
RE: Boy that really is bad news to those of us that have spent years in the indusry using RMS power meters made by such pervayers of misinformation as Hewlett-Packard for example. Which reference material are you quoting that indicates there is no such thing as R.M.S. power?