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Old 11th Oct 2018, 11:12 am   #21
Skywave
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Arrow Re: Full wave rectified RMS voltage

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Originally Posted by terrykc View Post
As RMS stands for the Root Square Mean of a sine wave, . . . .
Err, not so - according to this extract . . .

http://www.mathwords.com/r/root_mean_square.htm

No reference is made to the shape of any waveform (electrical or otherwise): deals purely with 'R.M.S' as a mathematical concept.

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