ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:35:43 -0700, "Jim Thomson" <Jim.thom@telus.net>
wrote:
>### RMS. Ripple measurements and calcs have been RMS since day 1.
REPLY:
Since day 1? I don't think so. Scopes which read peak to peak have
been available since the stone age, but meters which will read true
RMS of a non-sine waveform have not, and I suspect are still rare in
most ham shacks even today.
But it really doesn't matter much IF you specify which you mean. Just
saying "1% ripple" with no qualifiers leads to confusion.
73, Bill W6WRT
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