Monday, 31 October 2011

Carlsbad Electrician- Electricity Meters

By Leon Burgett


Electricity meters are used to measure the amount of electricity consumed in factories and homes. Electricity meters that measure the actual electricity that runs through the neighborhood. DC voltage power = Vit. Systems operate on alternating current, only a watt-hour meters are used.

Older meters as a measure electrolyte, which is used only for alternating current, and is now obsolete, but its state of activity is still somewhat interesting. It consists of a cathode, electrolyte, and economies of scale. It is a separator at the top and bottom of the scale of meters. Sealed glass vessel containing the electrolyte solution, consisting of salt of mercury. Some consumers are current to flow through the electrolyte. At the cathode in the amount of mercury is deposited. The mercury accumulates in the bottom of the ship. The scale is graduated in kWh. The mercury is then collected and returned to the top of the cover.

Another type of older meters, is the motor-type meter, which is a small DC motor. It is an aluminum disk, which is mounted within the field of permanent magnets. Aluminum plate with three reels, which are supplied to the power switch is composed of three fields. The coil output current is proportional to the total current through the installation of the consumer. Another type of electric meter is inductive, and can still be used. Induction of the counter is not switches and two electromagnets. Coil to pull one of these consumers and other coil is connected to the current power consumption. The interaction between the two coils produces a magnetic field that induces eddy currents in motion disc rotor made of aluminum.

These currents cause the disk to rotate in the direction of movement of the box of movement and speed of the disk is proportional to the strength of the two magnetic fields. It also depends on the phase of these areas, and thus the power factor. Today, most electric meters electronically controlled with the use of different circuits and computer chips smaller. This allows the meter to save not only electricity but other information and the date and time when electricity was used, and also help to produce invoices. Electric meters are very common and can be found everywhere electricity is consumed. Almost all homes will have at least one electric meter installed and there can be several different types. For example, a few meters specifically designed for housing as a counter various saving rate or a pay as you go meter type.

Pay as you go gauges type refers to the electricity purchased in advance. This is achieved by using a credit card payment or payment type "key".

Card or a key inserted into a special purpose electronic outlet, and a certain amount of data downloaded and paid for the card or key. Card or "key" is then inserted in the meter case, which is available to download data. The most common unit is a kilowatt-hour, and demand is measured in watts and an average time, usually fifteen minutes.




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