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Division DEFINITIONS

United Kingdom

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An active electrical energy meter is a device which measures the active electrical energy consumed in a circuit.

I=the electrical current flowing through the meter;
In =the specified reference current for which the transformer operated meter has been designed;
Ist =the lowest declared value of I at which the meter registers active electrical energy at unity power factor (polyphase meters with balanced load);
Imin =the value of I above which the error lies within maximum permissible errors (MPEs) (polyphase meters with balanced load);
Itr =the value of I above which the error lies within the smallest MPE corresponding to the class index of the meter;
Imax =the maximum value of I for which the error lies within the MPEs;
U=the voltage of the electricity supplied to the meter;
Un =the specified reference voltage;
f=the frequency of the voltage supplied to the meter;
fn =the specified reference frequency;
PF=power factor = cosφ = the cosine of the phase difference φ between I and U.