@almarg
The paragraph above appears to me contradictory. First you say the waveform defines how power varies as a function of time. That would be instaneous power or instaneous heating, agreed? The RMS also defines how power varies as a function of time and defines its DC heating value. We needed that when Tesla won the "war of the currents" over Edison. How else were we to specify the voltage of the required sine wave.
As to the WIckipedia article i did find it and its many flaws. If you have the time, rather than defend kijanki do some reading yourself. There are 18 complaints about this article on the talk page of which 13 and 14 pretty much kill the whole thing. If kijanki learned this from articles like this then he is in the same mistaken camp. Shall we leave him there?
Would you care to tell me why an amplifier producing 100 watts RMS is any different than an AC generator producing 100 watts RMS. We are talking about sine waves here, that is all.
And then please where 141 watts comes from. What kind of inbetween power is that to be called?
To be sure it’s clear, I absolutely did not say that "RMS power" varies as a function of time, although I can see how my statement might have been misread. I said that...... what the words "RMS power" literally mean is the RMS value of a waveform that defines how power varies as a function of time.
(The "waveform defines how power varies as a function of time"; the RMS value of that waveform of course does not define how power varies as a function of time).
The paragraph above appears to me contradictory. First you say the waveform defines how power varies as a function of time. That would be instaneous power or instaneous heating, agreed? The RMS also defines how power varies as a function of time and defines its DC heating value. We needed that when Tesla won the "war of the currents" over Edison. How else were we to specify the voltage of the required sine wave.
As to the WIckipedia article i did find it and its many flaws. If you have the time, rather than defend kijanki do some reading yourself. There are 18 complaints about this article on the talk page of which 13 and 14 pretty much kill the whole thing. If kijanki learned this from articles like this then he is in the same mistaken camp. Shall we leave him there?
Would you care to tell me why an amplifier producing 100 watts RMS is any different than an AC generator producing 100 watts RMS. We are talking about sine waves here, that is all.
And then please where 141 watts comes from. What kind of inbetween power is that to be called?
