Back To Basics: Root Mean Square (RMS)
Some very basic stuff you might need to wrap your head around in advance of certain articles. In this issue I take a look at Root Mean Square (RMS) as a measure of alternating voltage
Everybody knows what voltage is (I hope). I view voltage as a potential or ‘pressure’ for this is how it was taught to me as a tender spring roll. Back in class we had beakers of water at different heights, with all manner of plastic tubing. We were to imagine the water as electricity and we watched water flow from a state of high potential (beaker on a…
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