Bill,

Did you read what I wrote?

Or perhaps you don't believe it? If not, just pick up any textbook on
basic electric circuit theory, where you'll find essentially the same
explanation.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Bill Turner wrote:
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Ok, I grant you that, but as I see it, in a resistive circuit RMS
voltage causes RMS current to flow and the resultant power is RMS power.
Why not?

If DC volts x DC amps = DC power

and

Peak volts x peak amps = peak power

then why does not

RMS volts x RMS amps = RMS power?

If you want to say that RMS power is the same as average power, I can
live with that, but why say that RMS power is a meaningless concept?

Oh well. You guys have given it a good try, but I remain unconvinced.

Perhaps we should move on to the question of whether current flows from
plus to minus or minus to plus. A lot of otherwise good engineers
actually believe it to be the former. I love to hear them explain how a
vacuum tube works. :-)

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Bill W6WRT