[Electric engineering.] . too 0,000 / 00,000 /0,000. FIG. 50 § 14 ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION. 101 120. The Thomson meter has five dials. The lowestreading pointer is the one to the extreme right (facing themeter); it is marked 1,000, and this means that one com-plete revolution of the hand indicates 1,000 watt-hours, andeach division, therefore, represents 100 watt-hours. Thenext one to the left is 10,000 to a revolution, or 1,000 for adivision, and so on. Fig. 50 shows six different readings,and by studying these, the student should be able to takereadings from any meter. Some of these figures hav
[Electric engineering.] . too 0,000 / 00,000 /0,000. FIG. 50 § 14 ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION. 101 120. The Thomson meter has five dials. The lowestreading pointer is the one to the extreme right (facing themeter); it is marked 1,000, and this means that one com-plete revolution of the hand indicates 1,000 watt-hours, andeach division, therefore, represents 100 watt-hours. Thenext one to the left is 10,000 to a revolution, or 1,000 for adivision, and so on. Fig. 50 shows six different readings,and by studying these, the student should be able to takereadings from any meter. Some of these figures have thehands in positions that are liable to puzzle the beginner. Beginning at the left, number the pointers 1, 2, 3, 4, and , in /, Fig. 50, pointer 5 is on 2 and is read 4 is two-tenths of the way between 8 and 9 and isread 8,000. Pointer 3 is read 10,000. Pointer 2 hasnot gone through its first division; likewise pointer statement of the meter is then 18,200, and is to bemultiplied by the constant of the meter to reduce to
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