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From: gdelong@cvman.UUCP (Gary Delong)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How a watthour meter works (was: 110V vs 220V summary)
Summary: inductive loads?
Message-ID: <559@cvman.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:37:46 GMT
References: <3312@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <4958@ingr.com>
Organization: Computervision, Manchester, NH
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In article <4958@ingr.com>, steve@ingr.UUCP (Steve Conklin) writes:
> Here is a description of how a watthour meter works. I grabbed this from the
> net two years ago.
> 
> 		Steve Conklin		uunet!ingr!tesla!steve
[description deleted]

That sounds like it would make the accuracy of the meter very dependent
upon the type of load.  ie: wouldn't an inductive load really screw
things up?

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