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  <P>In fact the meter has an "Rr 13 8/9" painted on it.</P>

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Subject: Re: electric meter Rr hectowatthour
From: "Dave Dahle" <dd-ah-le@dtg.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:32:29 -0500
Newsgroups: misc.industry.utilities.electric
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   <P>"Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote</P>

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    <P>Inside my electric meter is painted Kh 7.2, Rr 13 8/9.
    Kh=100/Rr, But why is Rr the number of rotations for a
    hectowatthour, not a kilowatthour?</P>
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   <P>You're not taking the gear ratio between the disk and
   register pickup gear into account!</P>

   <P>In this case, we can safely assume it's 100 (commonly used on
   GE, ABB/Westinghouse, and older Sangamo and Duncan meters).</P>

   <P>Rr is the # of revolutions of the pickup gear for a full
   revolution of the rightmost dial.</P>
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  <P>So 1000 / 7.2 / 100 = ( 13 + 8 / 9 ) / 10</P>