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Avg Dissipation (mW)

Engineering
The average heat a coil produces over a complete pulse cycle, counting both the on-time and the off-time. It's what the coil's cooling has to keep up with. The report doesn't include this figure, because it measures the magnetic field the coil produces, not the current through the coil. Expressed in milliwatts (mW). It's worked out from the current through the coil, the coil's resistance, and the duty cycle.
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