Progress in the art of metering electric energy: IV — Calibration and installation of watt-hour meters

This article concludes the series on the metering art sponsored by the AIEE committee on instruments and measurements; the complete report is being issued in pamphlet form for immediate distribution, details on page 597 A VITAL ASPECT of the art of metering electric energy is the calibration, installation, and maintenance of the meter that measures this energy. This constitutes an important contact between the utility company and its customers. The diligence with which, since the origin of the art, methods and techniques have been developed and pursued to insure a high degree of accuracy has done much to create on the part of the customer a feeling of confidence in the meter by means of which his charge for the service rendered is computed.