ANNEX V

DEFINITIONS

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.