On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:42:57 -0600, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Ted Edwards writes:

After all, they are concerend with an upper linmit on the
order of 20 or so KW. A few tens or hundreds of watts is a long way
below full scale.

I always thought they could track a night light. They run at incredibly
slow rpms.

We have some HOA customers with a meter pedestal and a meter feeding
a 4-zone irrigation timer - figure a watt or two to run the timer, and
2 or 3 watts when there's a solenoid valve open. 30 years later, and
the watthour meter reads 0000014.

Watt-hour meters can record infintessimally small currents like that
over the long term, but you can't see it to use the information in the
short term. If the disk turns 1 degree...

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