Want to lower your electric bill? 3 tools I use to find the biggest power hogs in my house

Using the ATX 9801 is easy -- plug one end into a mains outlet, and it acts like a short extension lead with a digital display. The socket on the front accepts pretty much every power plug worldwide, ...
POWER Magazine

Precision Matters: Why Accurate Meter Testing is Critical for Utility Performance and Compliance

Achieving accuracy across a variety of meters is essential for maintaining reliability, regulatory compliance, and customer trust. But not every test setup delivers—many fall short when it comes to ...
WKYC3

An inside look into CMP's 'Smart Meter' testing lab

AUGUSTA (NEWS CENTER Maine) – “I don’t know what they are covering up, what they’re hiding, but they’re hiding something,” Vickie Harvey Johnson, a CMP customer, told NEWS CENTER Maine. She’s one of ...
T&D

Modern Electricity Meter Safety, Accuracy and Performance Testing

Today’s meters are feature-rich computers capable of measuring, recording, and transmitting many types of data. Compared with electromechanical meters, modern meters operate differently and have the ...
EDN

Overcoming standby power pre-compliance testing challenges

Regulatory institutions all over the world have started noticing the problem of creeping standby power for electronic products that plug into a wall socket. Committees like the International ...