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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How a watthour meter works (was: 110V vs 220V summary)
Summary: RKVA...
Message-ID: <3110@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 23:36:24 GMT
References: <3312@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <4958@ingr.com> <559@cvman.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <559@cvman.UUCP>, gdelong@cvman.UUCP (Gary Delong) writes:
> > Here is a description of how a watthour meter works. I grabbed this from the
> > net two years ago.
> 
> 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?

	You are correct.  That is why virtually all commercial customers
of electric power utility companies with an electric service of greater
than 200 amps are also metered for reactive kva (RKVA).  Newer meters have
dual indicators for both measurements within the same meter housing, and
older power installations or those for large services use separate meter
housings.

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