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Subject: Re: Powerline voltage too high, power co working on it
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rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:

>... Again, there is NO SUCH THING as "true RMS"; it's just RMS! ...

When I worked for a semiconductor manufacturer in Indiana, one of my 
associates dictated a letter in which he used the phrase, "115 volts 
RMS."  The secretary typed "115 volts are a mess."

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Frank Reid     reid@ucs.indiana.edu