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jamsmith · 13th February 2008

You are going to get a different RMS readings for different waveforms also. The RMS of a sine wave is 70.7% but a square wave RMS is 100%. A triangle wave RMS is peak divide by the square root of 3.

13th February 2008	#24
jamsmith Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 1,044	You are going to get a different RMS readings for different waveforms also. The RMS of a sine wave is 70.7% but a square wave RMS is 100%. A triangle wave RMS is peak divide by the square root of 3. __________________ Screamin' Michael Jamsmith - www.jamsmith.com "You CAN polish a turd, but you just end up with a shiny turd."