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From: dana@locus.com (Dana H. Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: polarity
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.035007.2804716@locus.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 03:50:07 GMT
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In article <2226@gold.gvg.tek.com> grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert) writes:
>Almost. 120V RMS sinusoids are actually 340 v p-p, or 170 v peak.

  I know I'm the one who claimed that power is dissipated in capacitors a
while back (ugh!), but I do not believe 120VRMS is 340V p-p. It is 170V p-p.

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