Am 19.09.2011 22:22, schrieb Joe Catania:
I'm not going to take it on faith about the AC power being less than DC. I've done these types of calculations before and I can tell you they are not simple.It is simple. The simplest way to calculate such problems is to use the law of enery conservation ;-)
A sawtooth wave can generate some extremely high harmonics which have a large skin effect. I'd need to see the formula used to evaluate them.
;-)
