[AMPS] Peak reading vs True peak

[George T. Daughters]

It has been written...

> 	> Is there a difference between peak power and True peak power? 

I suspect (opinion only) that "True peak power" is a term invented by 
marketing, in the specsmanship game.  Like "Our peak power rating is 
the TRUE peak power. Other manufacturers are fibbing.  They are 
telling us a FALSE peak power."  

I remember "true RMS voltmeters" being advertised and sold a while 
ago.  (OK, a long while ago.)  When you looked at how they arrived at 
"truth,"  it was by measuring the RMS voltage by heating of a 
resistor, rather than ASSUMING a sine wave, or square wave.  So, 
"true RMS" meant "RMS."

73, 
George T. Daughters, K6GT

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