Would this really save electricity?

But there is positive and negative power. So you integrate over a whole cycle to come up with a net true power.

Or take the R.M.S.

Derek

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Derek Geldard
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Yes, I noticed that. Indeed with a purely reactive load fully half of the data points will be observations of power with a negative sign.

No, it must be the average. RMS of power is an abomination :-)

Tony

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Anthony R. Gold

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