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Subject: [Amps] RMS Power
From: g8gsq@qsl.net (Steve Thompson)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:17:33 -0000
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From: <MorgusMagnificen@aol.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: 10 November 2002 19:17
Subject: [Amps] RMS Power


> (This is a correction to my previous note).
>
> To those who say there is no such thing as RMS power, its time for you to
go
> back and re-learn your basic AC theory. RMS power is defined simply as the
> time-average value of the energy in a circuit.
Isn't that just the mean, or average power. I can see why you take the mean,
or average of the voltage or current squared to get the average power but I
can't get my head round how the average of (power squared) is meaningful.

Steve


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