look at my attachment please.
i also can not believe there is reactive power but how is the phase shift explained otherwise?
thanks
st
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 18:52:49 -0600, Curtis Sakima <csakima@...> wrote:
I think we could be getting into a semantic war with this thing. So ....
instead of my talking anymore ... please ... everyone open up the *.bmp
attachment of this email. THIS .... is what I saw on the scope output of
the triac dimmer. The arrows indicate what moves as I dim the lamps up and
down. The overall wave doesn't shift ... but that vertical line (indicated
by the arrows) ... shifts left and right.
As the area under the curve varies ... so does the intensity of the lamps.
I thought a picture might settle this.
Curtis
