Re: How a watthour meter works (was: 110V vs 220V summary)

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From: Gary Delong
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 16:37

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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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From: gdelong@cvman.UUCP (Gary Delong)
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Subject: Re: How a watthour meter works (was: 110V vs 220V summary)
Summary: inductive loads?
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Date: 21 Apr 89 16:37:46 GMT
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