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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Powerline voltage too high, power co working on it
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Date: 27 Dec 90 17:19:16 GMT
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>Again, there is NO SUCH THING as "true RMS"; it's just RMS!
>
>Sorry to shout!
>
>Rich
From: charless@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Charles R. Sullivan)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!charless

For those of you who are upset by the term "true RMS voltage,"
how about "true RMS power"?!?  I've seen that used in UL specifications, where
I asssume they intended just "true average power."  RMS power would be a very 
strange thing to want to measure.

Charlie Sullivan                                  charless@cory.berkeley.edu