2. Electrical power measurement
2.1 Active power measurement
The devices used for power measurement are wattmeters that indicate the average value of the product of instantaneous current and voltage values via an analog or digital display.
SCROLL TO TOP2.1.1 Measurement on a single-phase network
The average power absorbed by the receiver is measured directly by a wattmeter (figure
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