On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:03:43 -0800, the renowned "Bob May"
wrote:

What is a Watt of power?

True rms power of 1 Watt ends up being:
1.414W peak

If you're assuming a sinusoidal waveform, the peak wattage into a
resistive load would be 2W. The peak *voltage* would be sqrt(2) times
the RMS voltage.

2.828W peak to peak

What is a "peak to peak" watt? Is power flowing out of the load? With
a sinusoidal waveform and a resistive load, the power goes smoothly
(sin(x)*sin(x)) from 0 to the peak wattage and back again at twice the
frequency of the voltage.

8W+ for an output level with unlimited amps.
Almost anything past the 8W for instantenous peak power.

Thus you can be rating a speaker for 3W when it really is only capable of
handling 1W. Change the rating to where you have a constant voltage and you
can square the power level. As a result, your 50W amp can also be rated as
2500W if you want to really do it the way that some did back in those days!
Today, after some regulation agreements setup by the makers of amps came
about, the wattage ratings became a lot more sensible.


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