Electricity plays a vital role in human life. In addition to lighting your home, it powers essential household items. Since you're consuming electricity, there's a need to track and measure the consumption unit, thus creating a need for electric … [Read more...]
Why More Power Companies Are Switching to Smart Meters
In our digitally dependent world, it's no surprise that we want our homes to be as technologically advanced as possible. Rather than making manual adjustments, we opt for smart thermostats and automatic window treatments. We want to ask Siri or Alexa … [Read more...]
How Energy Meter Testing Equipment Can Help Guard Against Hot Sockets
One of the most dangerous occurrences you can find when testing a meter is a hot socket. Typically caused by loose connections, hot sockets can be the cause of safety hazards such as house fires. Today, we'll spend a little time looking at how to … [Read more...]
Electrical Meter Testing: Why High-Quality Equipment is Important
Are you an Electric Meter Technician? Do you work for a utility company or service provider? If yes, then you’re already aware of the new regulations passed by ANSI C12 that require users to use a 3-phase source when testing energy meters. In 3-phase … [Read more...]
Mythbusters: Solid vs Stranded Wires
Think you know the answer? This month in our Powermetrix Mythbusters series we put our engineers to the task by asking them to see whether solid wire or stranded wire is best for meter site installations. Think you already know the answer? Watch … [Read more...]