[JackA]

On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 11:23:03 AM UTC-4, wrote:
What is being measured is average power.
If you
take RMS current and RMS voltage and multiply, you get average power, not
RMS power. People call it "RMS power" but it isn't.



+1 exactly correct
Mark

I say it's "apparent" power, since it is AC, reactive.

Jack