Basics

Phase or Polarity?

Posted by on Wednesday 11th August 2010 at 12:52 pm

The use of the term ‘flipping the phase’ or ‘inverting the phase’ is a common misnomer that I see time and time again by professional and amateur alike. The problem is that to invert the phase of an electrical signal simply does not make sense, and what is most commonly meant is actually a polarity […]