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Pierre FERRAND: Engineer from École Nationale Supérieure d'Électricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM)
INTRODUCTION
Update of the text by P. Mercier published in this treatise in 1992.
The article "Alternating-current meters" is the subject of several booklets:
"General information ;
"Electromechanical meters [D 4 953] ;
"Electronic meters .
Everywhere except France, electromechanical AC meters are in widespread use, and every year millions of active energy meters, or watt-hour meters, are manufactured worldwide.
These meters are of the induction type, i.e. they are small induction motors with a solid rotor in the shape of a disc.
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