“***Wait, whut? EE’s talk about a resistor operating for YEARS. Is that how long your supposed “pulse” lasts? Geez, you’re a loon.”
Oy! That pretty much explains his knowledge failure, right there in that one sentence.
I gave you an example: motor braking. A power resistor has to dissipate the total mechanical energy of a system during breaking operations. We don’t measure the mechanical system’s stored energy in watts, because watts isn’t energy. Nope, instead, we use this other unit, called the Joule, which describes energy.
I gave you an example: motor braking.
***Then it would appear that your pulse would last at MOST few seconds, not years. That’s all you needed to post. As you say, “Oy! That pretty much explains his knowledge failure, right there in that one sentence.”