Central Electric Light and Power Stations, 1907

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 197 sider
 

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Side 119 - The average of these tests, obtained by multiplying the result of the test at normal load by three, adding the result of the tests at one-tenth capacity and full capacity and dividing the total by five, shall be deemed the condition of the meter, and such final average shall be reported to the Commission on the form prescribed by it.
Side 119 - When a meter is found to be connected to an installation consisting of two or more of the above classes of loads, the normal load used must be obtained by taking the average of the percentages for the classes so connected.
Side 118 - A periodic meter test is a test of a watt-hour meter made by an electrical corporation in the regular course of its business upon the premises where the meter is installed, but not at the time of installation, which test is not made as the result of a complaint from the consumer nor by the direction of the corporation, of an officer or of an employee that a special test be made.
Side 167 - And every president, treasurer, secretary, director, agent, or other officer of every corporation, and every establishment of productive industry, whether conducted as a corporate body, limited liability company, or by private individuals, from which answers to any of the schedules, inquiries, or statistical interrogatories provided for by this act are herein required, who shall, if thereto requested by the...
Side 167 - When the private citizen is asked to respond to census questionnaires, he is guaranteed by title 13, section 9 of the United States Code that the information he furnishes to the Government will be examined only by 'sworn officers and employees' of the Census Bureau ; that it will be used only for 'the statistical purposes for which it is supplied...
Side 118 - ... or substitute a correct meter for it. All fees for examinations and tests are paid by the applicant, and if the examination is made at the request of the customer and the meter is found to register too fast, the electric light company pays the fees to the board, to be repaid by it to the applicant. The meter is deemed to be correct if it does not vary more than 5 per cent from the standard approved by the board. The inspector employed by the board receives a salary, together with necessary traveling...
Side 95 - ... powers on account of the practicability of their use for the generation of power and the electrical transmission of this power to distant markets. The great hydro-electric development at Niagara was the first large enterprise of this character and has demonstrated its practicability. The census of 1905 gives a partial list of long-distance hydro-electric plants developing power aggregating 600,000 horsepower and this list can now be largely increased. Our most desirable water powers are being...
Side 118 - A customer of an electric lighting company or such company may apply to the board of gas and electric light commissioners for an examination and test of any meter in use upon a customer's premises. The board shall forthwith cause to be made by a competent and disinterested person such examination and test of said meter, if any, as in the judgment of the board is practicable and reasonable, and shall furnish to the company and to the customer a certificate of the result...
Side 118 - All tests are required to be made with the meter in its permanent position on the consumer's premises, and under actual operating conditions as regards voltage, frequency, temperature, stray fields, and vibration.
Side 119 - COO volts, the meter may be tested as a self-contained meter, and the ratio certificates o£ the transformers may be used in calculating the true line watts, 'provided said certificates are dated within the five years preceding the time the meter is tested. In complaint and office tests, the Commission will accept the ratio certificates of the transformers, provided they are dated within the year preceding the time the meter is tested. § 7. When rotating standard meters are used, the connections...

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