"dave" wrote in message
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"Figure of Merit" in pulsed applications vs "efficiency"
in linear applications.

Any (???) device can produce more peak power in pulsed mode than continuous,
because it spends less time in the region where it dissipates the most power.


RMS power is measured in heating ability versus DC.

There is no such thing (other than in a mathematical sense) as RMS power.
Voltage and current can have RMS (root-mean-square) values. Squaring voltage
and dividing by resistance, or squaring current and multiplying by resistance
produces the //average// power.