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Default voltage of dimmer output not reading same on two different DVM's

On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 12:46:33 AM UTC-8, Andy Burns wrote:
brucek wrote:

i'd guess because they are non-sinusoidal outputs and one of the meters is not true rms

I'd say neither of them are true RMS.


Good point--measuring DC current average is the appropriate setting, and there's
no DC-scale on any of my meters that does RMS measure.

Voltage, averaged or RMS averaged, is going to deliver at-or-near nonsense numbers
for the purposes of evaluating an LED illuminator.