Questions tagged [rms]
Root Mean Square. Mathematical method to calculate effective value from an AC signal.
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Extracting decibels from wave file
I've been using a Sound Level Meter (Larson Davis 831C) to record bird songs. The device gives me both amplitude readings (Leq and Lpeak with A, C, and Z weightings) with a sampling rate of 50 Hz and ...
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Is the reference voltage for voltage control the RMS between the three phase voltages?
Suppose to provide voltage control with an AVR connected to a synchronous generator. A voltage reference is compared with the output terminal voltage of the generator, and the error between them is ...
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Power (dBm) of a non return to zero modulated signal
How to calculate the power (dBm) of this signal which is fed into a receiver with an input impedance of 50 ohms?
The power in dBm formula is 10log(Vrms^2/R)/1mW and R equals 50 ohms. In this case how ...
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Measuring AC current with a current transformer and ADC
I'm looking at using a current transformer (CT) to measure 50hz sinusoidal AC current with a microcontroller's ADC.
Is there a way to measure the RMS or average of an AC signal with good response ...
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Boost PFC power loss calcaulation
I am studying boost PFC topologies.
I run into a question, how to calculate the CCM / CRM /DCM boost PFC power loss.
I read the On semi document. I would like to derive the Diodes RMS current, but I ...
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Measure power with multiple measurements
I want to measure the mean power draw of a Jetson Nano. I did this by using a digital multimeter and running the measurement 60 times with a fixed integration time of 0.3s.
The result of each ...
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Nominal or real AC/DC power supply values
I have three older AC/DC power supplies with these nominal values:
Input 120 Vac, 0.3 A, 60 Hz
Output 16 Vdc, 900 mA
Input 120 Vac, ?, 60 Hz
Output 16 Vdc, 1 A
Input 120 Vac, 60 Hz, 4 W
Output 9 Vdc, ...
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Best way to decompose addition of waveforms?
I am searching for a way to decompose the exact components of additions of known waveforms.
For example, lets say there is a waveform that is sum of multiple sinc functions.
The sinc function's ...
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Calculate power output of 3 phase generator - uneven sine wave
I am using this BLDC motor [https://uav-en.tmotor.com/html/2018/navigato_0402/52.html] as a generator. The device providing the mechanical drive turns the motor about half a turn and not at a linear ...
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Connecting peak voltage, RMS, line-to-line and line-to-neutral
In EU the line-to-neutral voltage from a power outlet which is single phase (if I understand correctly) is 230V RMS and 50Hz. Then the line-to-line voltage (for the three-phase connection coming to ...
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How does the RMS voltage capture the time varying part in the conversion ratio of the half wave rectifier?
I am studying conversion ratio of a halfwave rectifier from here.
It says that
Conversion ratio (also called "rectification ratio", and confusingly, "efficiency") η is defined as ...
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Understanding stepper motor as generator Vs DC motor (RMS to equivalent DC)
I am using a stepper motor as a generator in a proof of concept experiment for something. The motor came from an old printer so do not have specs for it, but I believe it's unipolar. It has 5 wires, ...
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How to get RMS voltage and frequency from datapoints read from an ADC?
I have an ADC that samples 4000 times per second or 0.25 ms interval per sample. I would like to extract the RMS and frequency value of the signal being read. How do oscilloscopes and multimeters do ...
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Which theory do oscilloscopes or multimeters follow to measure RMS value?
For calculating RMS value , what I have found so far is that samples of a full cycle are taken then the ADC values are used to calculate RMS. Thus the RMS value stays independent of signal frequency.
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Ripple of half-wave rectifier
I have an output sinusoidal voltage \$v_o = V_msin(\omega t) \ne0 \$ for \$ 0 < \omega t < \pi\$.
The RMS value of \$v_o\$ is $$ V_{o, RMS} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{\pi} \int_{0}^{\pi}[V_m sin(\omega t)...
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Circuit that converts sine wave to RMS voltage
How do I design a simple circuit that converts a sine wave to an RMS voltage? The input will be a sine wave and the output an RMS voltage.
I know I will need an ADC, but not sure which one. I also ...
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Using 110 Vac incandescent light bulb at 220 Vac with a series diode
I have a 110 Vac incandescent light bulb but I need to use it in 220 Vac.
If I add a diode in series with the bulb, the RMS power is the same as before but the peak value of voltage and current is ...
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How do I calculate an incomplete sinusoidal signal's average value and RMS value?
I couldn't be sure because there are parts with size 0 in the signal.
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How do you convert dBm to Vrms?
I'm trying to convert dBm to Vrms.
The formula for dBm is
\$ dBm = 10 * log(P1 / P0) \$ where P0 = 1mW
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\$ +13dBm = 20mW \$
If I convert this to a voltage using the formula
\$ P = Vrms^2/R \$ ...
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Calculating peak period jitter from datasheet that lists phase noise
The oscillator I plan on using list phase noise for a 20MHZ signal as:
(100Hz) -124 dBc/Hz
(1kHz) -140 dBc/Hz
(10kHz) -148 dBc/Hz
100kHz -155 dBc/Hz
(1MHz) -157 dBc/...
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Why is average power: the average of the voltage squared/resistance rather than the ((voltage average)^2)/resistance?
Regarding pulse waves specifically. So this should be especially simple.
I see it written that
$$\text{average power} = \text{average current} \times \text{average voltage}$$
which also equals
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How to remove the noise current values during CT disconnected?
i am doing a energy monitoring system.
i have done High pass filter in the values of ADC current and getting correct. but when CT disconnected some current(noise) getting how to fix it.
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RMS Current calculation from MCP3008
How to find RMS value of current from ADC value gets from CT??? . I have done like below
Made a burden resistor and voltage divider circuit for CT
MCP3008 connected with Jetson through SPI
5V to VDD
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Average power when a periodic, non-sinusoidal waveform is applied across a resistor with a given voltage across it [closed]
If I have a resistor across which some voltage is provided and a periodic ( non-sinusoidal and non-zero) wave of current is given to the same resistor, then what would be the average power? Do I need ...
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Average power dissipated by a diode
EDIT: Added a picture with values and a better explanation.
I need a little help over this calculation.
I have to calculate the average power dissipated by a bootstrap diode (actually a MOSFET ...
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How to measure power consumption of pulsed DC motor correctly?
I built a permanent magnet pulsed DC motor, and am trying to accurately measure power input, which proves to be harder than expected.
The motor is pulsed with a 25% duty cycle square wave and powered ...
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Finding RMS current of BLDC motor
I have a BLDC motor rated at 72V 1500W. I am working on an application that requires me to perform certain computations using the RMS current but I understand that I can only get the rated current ...
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What's the RMS voltage of this asymmetric rectangle function?
I recorded this asymmetric rectangle function:
I calculated the RMS voltage to be equal to the amplitude (4,10 V in this case)
However when I measured this exact signal with a TrueRMS multimeter, it ...
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Trapezoidal wave RMS value
I am calculating RMS value of trapezoidal wave.
I found its formula like below:
and at last the RMS value formula:
u = 30degree or pi/6 --> especially pi/6
A = 12
When I calculate RMS value by ...
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the best way to calculate rms voltage from 10Hz to 20KHz
We need to calculate the RMS voltage of a signal that can work from 10Hz to 20 KHz with a duty of 5% to 95%. I decided to use a dsPic33CK256EP202 with the ADC sampling at 500Ksps at 12 bits of ...
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How do I control the speed of a universal AC motor and measure the voltage and current flowing through it?
It is desired to be able to control the speed of my rotary drill as well as measure the average torque (or is RMS torque a thing?) of the universal AC motor.
I am using this torque equation: τ = (I * ...
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Why is induced EMF of an inductor considered as average voltage and not RMS or maximum?
So my professor discussed to us about induced EMF of an inductor and mentioned that it is an average value and not maximum or RMS if you were to consider which type of voltage it is from the different ...
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How Can I Calculate Total RMS Value From One Pulse?
I tried to solve this myself, but I'm forced to beg for help.
I have a very short waveform, too short to resolve accurately on my scope.
When I expand the waveform, the RMS of one complete pulse is 6....
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RMS Value of a voltage waveform consisting of a superimposition of 2V DC and a 4 V peak to peak square wave is?
RMS value should be sqrt(2^2 + (4/sqrt(2))^2) which is equal to sqrt(12), but the answer is sqrt(2^2 + (4/sqrt(2))^2) which is equal to sqrt(8).
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Multisim RMS value
I am trying to measure RMS value of full wave rectifier but I don't know why, I see two different RMS value. See the image below
According to voltage prob, RMS value is 3.25V and according to ...
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How can I find the RMS value of a wave in irregular form?
As a sine wave passes through a circuit, it clips and the waveform in the figure is formed.
How can I find the RMS value of a full wave?
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Calculating RMS current from AC712 chip (AC system)
I have read several articles with code examples on how to calculate the actual current with a ACS712 chip with AC involved. I understand what RMS is and I feel like I am able to implement it myself. ...
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Voltage and current rating of electrical systems
Why voltage and current ratings of almost all electrical systems are RMS value of voltage and current not peak value of voltage and current?
First I thought maybe because mostly ac input is sinusoidal ...
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RMS values and Phasors
I need to solve these two exercises but I really have no idea where to start.
How should I proceed to solve this kind of problems?
I tried to find something on my teacher's files but haven't ...
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Measuring RMS power output from audio amplifier channel
I am looking for a simple way for getting the RMS power output of an amplifier channel set to some arbitrary gain. I want this in order to find the maximum level I can safely set the amplifier at for ...
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Estimate the speed of BLDC motor using back-EMF constant
I want to mesure the speed of BLDC motor using back-EMF constant, \$Ke=Vrms/rpm\$, so the speed is \$rpm=Vrms/ke\$.
What I want to know is how to get the Vrms? Suppose I have DC supply=40 V and the ...
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Do same current formulas apply if a capacitor is added, and vice versa for inductor
Ok so the title question is a bit misleading but its hard to explain in that small space.
My questions concern themselves with the analyzing of the circuit observed below, however fundamentally ...
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CMSIS DSP Library and RMS
I'm using a STM32 Cortex M0+ controller which does not have FPU. I'm reading 50/60Hz sine wave and I would like to calculate the RMS using the DSP library: keil.com/pack/doc/CMSIS/DSP/html/group__RMS....
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RMS and average value of a DC signal - Which is the correct way to eliminate the inaccuracies due to incorrect measurement setup?
I have a 5V DC signal and there are some ripples on top of the DC signal in the range of 50-100mV (maybe due my measurement inaccuracies or the switching noise coupling from other sources.)
In that ...
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Why do we use RMS current as the input current for calculating efficiency of half-wave rectifier?
Vi = Vmsin(ωt)
Im = Vm⁄R = maximum amplitude of dc current
Irms = Im⁄2
Iavg = Im⁄π
η = Pdc⁄Pi = efficiency
Pi = (Iavg)2R
Pdc = (Irms)2R
Since the negative portion of the wave is not involved :
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Finding the RMS value
Here, I can't understand the third step. Why they ignored other three terms \$(40000\sin\omega t\sin 3\omega t, 10000\sin 3\omega t\sin 5\omega t, 20000\sin 5\omega t\sin\omega t)?\$ Please help.
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50/60 Hz signals and ADC sampling frequency
As some of my previous posts, I'm trying to find the RMS of sine wave during the first cycle, but I still have some questions as for the sampling frequency.
Let's say I choose a sampling frequency of ...
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When to consider Peak current/voltage vs. RMS current/voltage and vice versa
When manufacturers create power labels for AC electrical devices, what value to they use for the current and voltage? Do they use the RMS of the sine wave? Or do they use the peak of the sine wave? ...
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RMS of an inverted sine wave
I'm building a circuit similar as below. The input signal is a current which will be converted to voltage using a burden resistor. The inverted output sine wave will go into an ADC to calculate the ...
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How to measure only the true RMS AC component of the waveform in an ADC?
I need to read an AC signal on an ADC. I have already conditioned the signal with an offset of 2.5V, which will vary from 0 to 5V.
How to calculate the Vac true RMD voltage of any signal (sinusoidal, ...