This course presents the fundamentals of instrument and single-phase/three-phase metering in utilities and industry, digital and analog wattmeters, Kwhr meters, polyphase connections.
Upon completion, participants will be familiar with:
- What is Electric Power
- AC & DC Power
- Voltage, Current, & Power Vectors (Phasors)
- Capacitive & Inductive Loads
- Real, Reactive & Apparent Power (Watts, Vars, VA)
- The Dynamometer Wattmeter
- The Energy Meter
- Single-Phase Metering
- 3-Wire, Single-Phase Metering
- Instrument Transformers (Current & Voltage CTs & PTs)
- Polyphase Energy Meters
- 3-Wire, Single-Phase Metering with CTs/PTs
- Metering a 3 Phase 4 Wire Load (“Y” Connected)
- Metering a 3 Phase 3 Wire Load (Delta Connected)
- Measurement Canada Standards
- Blondel’s Theorem
- Phase & Line Relationship