Re: Measuring Power dissipation emperically

"Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How does one go about measuring the power dissipation of a device(low
voltage) emperically? Stick it in water? Use a large heat sink? (talking
about the long term average and not instantanous obviously)

Measure the RMS voltage across it and the RMS current through it for
as long as you want. Multiplying those figures gives you the power
dissipation.

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