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Harry Bloomfield[_3_] Harry Bloomfield[_3_] is offline
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Default Wax Actuator watts?

Steve Walker expressed precisely :
Of a sinewave, not a half-wave rectified sine wave.

Sinewave: 339V / sqrt(2) = 240V RMS

Half-wave rectified sinewave: 339V / 2 = 169.5V RMS

SteveW


169.5v x 0.707= 119.83v RMS..