On 2022-05-12 4:40 a.m., Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Peter Coghlan wrote:
about it? Maybe it would be more accurate to use terms like steady
voltage
and alternating voltage? Alternating doesn't seem like that good a term
In German it's exactly like you suggest it. We say "Gleichspannung" (=
constant/steady voltage) and "Wechselspannung" (=alternating voltage)
I also hate the English/American expression "inverter" for voltage
converters, because really nothing is being inverted in any way.
Generating AC from DC _does_ always involve generation of "inverted"
voltages relative to the input DC (AC has positive and negative cycles),
so the term isn't really strange?
But hey, they still have inches and feet and ounzes (be they fluid or
solid) and gallons, so what can I expect? ;-))))
Christian
