There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Meters (Certification) Regulations 1998, Paragraph 5.
5.—(1) All tests shall be carried out under the reference conditions specified in table 1.
(2) The meter position requirement given in table 1 applies to induction meters only. Tolerance applies to a horizontal reference line or edge on the meter, such as the lower edge of the terminal block.
(3) When testing polyphase meters—
(a)the order of the phases shall correspond to the sequence shown on the connection diagram;
(b)the voltages shall be balanced so that the voltage between any line and neutral or between any two lines shall not differ by more than 1.5 per cent. from the mean of the corresponding voltages;
(c)the currents shall be balanced so that the current in any conductor shall not differ by more than 2.5 per cent. from the mean of these currents; and
(d)the phase displacement between the current and corresponding phase to neutral voltage shall not differ from other current and voltage phase displacements by more than 3 degrees at any power factor under any load conditions specified in table 2.
(4) The test given in table 1 in respect of external magnetic induction shall be carried out during commissioning or after major modification or refurbishing of a meter testing system. The test is carried out at 0.1 Ib unity power factor with the meters normally connected to determine the errors—
(a)for single phase meters, after reversing both current and voltage connections, for which half the difference between the two errors is the value of the variation;
(b)for polyphase meters, by making two additional measurements after each of the connections to the current circuits and to the voltage circuits are changed over 120 degrees but with the phase sequence unaltered, for which the greatest difference between each error determined and the mean of the three errors is the value of the variation.
(5) Where all the errors of repaired meters are determined by the method B or method C test, an additional test in accordance with method A shall be carried out. The method A test shall be carried out at one of the loads used for the method B or method C test. The error obtained by the method A test shall not differ by more than 0.6 per cent. from the error obtained at the same load value by the method B or method C test.
(6) The tests described in paragraph 4 shall continue until the error of meters can be calculated within a tolerance not greater than plus or minus 0.2 per cent.
(7) The method A test may be used for intermediate and high loads, at unity power factor and at 0.5 power factor, and the method B or method C test for the low load, provided that an additional method B or method C test is carried out at one of the test load values used for the method A test.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 1.8.1998, see reg. 1
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