Re: Ok.. where am I going wrong

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• Subject: Re: Ok.. where am I going wrong
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:02:24 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: Sam Laur <slaur-at-sekunda.pp.utu.fi>
> 
> > Original Poster: "Coiler" <mycroft-at-access1-dot-net>
> >
> > reason limiting works anyway. I had just hoped to take advantage
> > of the fact that this smoothing resistor would have voltage drop
> > across it proportinal to the current passing through it. I am just
> 
> It has been a _long_ time since I've last thought about AC analysis
in-depth,
> so excuse me if I'm wrong... but with a mostly reactive load, isn't it
> very easy to have the current in a circuit out-of-phase with the voltage
> in the same circuit? Would this resistor then have a voltage drop
proportional
> to the out-of-phase circuit current? So there isn't necessarily that much
> "heating power" in the circuit, after all.

	The current in the resistor is always in phase with the voltage across
it (or vice versa), so the heating is still I^2 R.

Ed

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