In message <[email protected]>, dated Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Derek 
Walton <[email protected]> writes:

>The ripple voltage... is this measured with an RMS meter, OR, is it the 
>root sum of the squares of the components as measured by a spectrum 
>analyzer?

Shouldn't they theoretically be the same? In practice, you may need to 
measure a large number of very small components in order to get a result 
that is reasonably close to the r.m.s. meter result. Vice versa, make 
sure your r.m.s meter has enough bandwidth to include all significant 
components.
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