On 12/24/2012 01:06 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
They are mutually exclusive...either you're
measuring the peak value
or the RMS value. They are different.
And a lot of multimeters do a darned poor job of measuring RMS for
anything other than a continuously recurring sinusoidal waveform.
You could have the statistical RMS error of a cluster of P-P readings
performed by a monkey, I suppose. :)
--Chuck