Re: Watt meters

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

Hi John,

It would be an interesting history lesson for the origin of the term
"imaginary" axis (maybe to compliment the term "real" axis).  Anyway, I
don't view the current as "imaginary" as in figment of one's imagination.
It exist.  The current is real (don't mean the real component here) and has
a phase relationship to the voltage.  It is just in mathematics that it is
boken into its "real" and "imaginary" or as I prefer, its "real" and
"reactive" components where the "real" component is in phase with the
voltage and the "reactive" component is 90 degrees out of phase from the
voltage.

Take care,
Gerry R


 > Original poster: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > I have been trying for years to get the imaginary currents out of my
 > capacitors and inductors with no success.
 >
 > All kidding aside, I find it interesting that something as real as an
 > electrical current can only be represented as something imaginary. Maybe
it
 > is because Mathematics was invented by imperfect man but currents were
made
 > by a perfect nature or God.