Since I'm not involved in any type of plasma electrolysis and the
measurement of the resultant waveforms, I thought I would research various
techniques by those that do. Below are quotes from a document titled " The
Law of Electric Circuit" by Ph. M. Kanarev.
"It appears from the analysis that average power in each section of the
electric circuit is equal to a product of average voltage, which is applied
across this section, by average value of current. It is the law of electric
circuit."
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"It is the law of electric circuit, which has been checked with the help of
many experiments being carried out by us.
We do not know if there is an enunciation of this law in modern electrical
engineering, but without this law it is impossible to make a correct
analysis of power engineering of mixed systems where energy is transferred
and consumed continuously and by pulses."
This document may be found at-
http://guns.connect.fi/innoplaza/energy/story/Kanarev/articles/TheLaw1.zip
I'm not a fan of the small handheld meters for such measurements due to
inaccuracy, but the DSP based scopes today are quite capable of making
average (plus many other) measurements on complex waveforms.
Also, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the typical electrolysis cells
appear to be most nearly "resistive" relative to their waveforms with very
little or no phase shift. If any phase shift is present, the cell will be
shuttling a portion of it's energy flow thru the reactive elements and may
IMO, possibly create false heat measurements due to reactive heating of the
conductive elements making up the device.
Jon F
