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@Jon Peli Oleaga: I may be reading something wrong, but I think the caption of the image is incorrect (some, not all). What you call as active power is actually instantaneous active power. What you call as reactive power is actually instantaneous reactive power. It may be useful, though not necessary, to say that the mean power is also known as average power (over one cycle), active power and real power. It may be useful, though not necessary, to say that the alternating power is also known as oscillating power. Also, I think the image is overloaded, too many curves/waveforms in just one plot; maybe you can split the plot/figure into various plots, possibly aligned horizontally to match the time axis, or simply as separate images. I'm making these comments because you added this image to the article AC power. --Alej27 (talk) 02:38, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Excuse me for answering so late: I only sporadically write something into Wikipedia and I have not read your note till this week.

As for the names assigned to the curves into the legend of the chart, I think that better than change these names in that legend, it would be to put under the figure something like “The curves on the figure represent the instantaneous values of the powers referenced on its legend”.

Similarly I think that better than putting on the legend of the figure all the names that can be used to talk about a concept it would be to put under the figure “Sometimes / (more) frequently / usually the alternating power is called oscillating power and instead of mean power average power, active power or real power are used” or something like that; but I don't dare to write that because, as you will see by reading these lines, my English is not very good and I am afraid of writing something completely wrong.

I wrote the SVG file in such a way that it would be easily readable by anyone, and if any of the names that appear in the legend should be changed, I think it can be easily done editing the file. (if it is edited, for example, with notepad++ instead of with INKSCAPE or some similar program, I think the new version will be equally easy for people to read)

As for the number of the curves on the figure; perhaps you are wright saying that it seems too big, but I prepared the chart to see clearly the relationship among most of the different powers easily, and I found much more easy for me (but perhaps not for other people) to see these relationships putting all the curves in the same figure. For me it was difficult to see the relative positions of two curves situated in two different figures even is the scales used in all of them were exactly the same.

Thanks, anyway, for your comments. Jon Peli Oleaga (talk) 19:49, 22 July 2023 (UTC)