On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>You still don't seem to get it.  Power into the load can't be computed from
>the RMS current, whether the voltage is known or not.  At least not unless
>both waveforms are known and the phase relationship between them, which is
>not the case here.

I think that I get it ;-).

>Think of it this way:  What if the load was a large capacitor.  The power
>average power into the load must be zero, but there is still significant RMS
>current and voltage.

Yes, but was that a capacitor ? Because of course I did not use it for a
capacitor, at least not directly.

Peter

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