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Re: Average, RMS and Power Factor made easy!



Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Ralph,

Not at all.  With the 1E-1000 Ohm load on the source the voltage drops from
one Volt to 1e-1000 Volts at a 1 Amp of current.  In source's internal
resistance is just a tiny bit less than 1 Ohm.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 09:26 PM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Terry,
>Aren't you assuming that the internal resistance of source is zero? 
>Is it ever? The voltage drop will occur across the internal resistance and all
>is well with Mr. Ohm, but not with the source.
>
>Cheers,
>Ralph Zekelman
>