Category: Electricity
Procedure: P-E-01 (rev. 4)
Document: EL-ENG-12-01
Issue Date:
Effective Date:
Supersedes: P-E-01 (rev. 3)
Table of contents
- 1.0 Purpose
- 2.0 Scope
- 3.0 References
- 4.0 Safety and hazard considerations
- 5.0 Procedures for the assessment of administrative requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.0)
- 5.1 Roles and responsibilities (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2)
- 5.1.1 Purpose
- 5.1.2 Certification process
- 5.1.3 Test equipment (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2.1)
- 5.1.4 Pre-testing (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2.5)
- 5.1.5 Required information (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2.6)
- 5.1.6 Test burdens (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2.7)
- 5.1.7 Requirements for maintaining certification (EL-ENG-12-01, ss. 5.2.8 to 5.2.11)
- 5.1.8 Procedures for the assessment of markings and documentation (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.3)
- 5.1.9 Records (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.3.2)
- 5.1.10 Operating manuals and schematics (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.3.3)
- 5.1.11 Calibration console markings (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.3.4)
- 5.1 Roles and responsibilities (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 5.2)
- 6.0 Procedures for the assessment of technical requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.0)
- 6.1 Use requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.1)
- 6.2 Environmental requirements: temperature (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.2.1)
- 6.3 Mechanical requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3)
- 6.3.1 Grounding (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.3)
- 6.3.1.1 Guidelines
- 6.3.1.2 Apparatus for consoles without automatic ground fault protection
- 6.3.1.3 Procedure for consoles without automatic ground fault protection
- 6.3.1.4 Apparatus for consoles with automatic ground fault protection consisting of a ground fault interrupting circuit breaker that does not have a test function
- 6.3.1.5 Procedure for consoles with automatic ground fault protection using the test switch
- 6.3.1.6 Procedure for consoles with automatic ground fault protection that do not have CSA-approved test function
- 6.3.1.7 Additional grounding procedure
- 6.3.2 Isolation from ground (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.4.1)
- 6.3.3 Isolation of secondary circuits from primary circuits (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.4.2)
- 6.3.4 Meter mounting arrangements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.5)
- 6.3.5 Operating mode (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.6)
- 6.3.6 Individual elements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.7)
- 6.3.1 Grounding (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.3.3)
- 6.4 Procedures for the assessment of electrical requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 6.4)
- 7.0 Procedures for the assessment of metrological requirements (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.0)
- 7.1 General procedures for the assessment of metrological requirements
- 7.2 General test setup
- 7.3 Basic procedure for conducting accuracy tests
- 7.3.1 Basic procedure for conducting energy accuracy tests
- 7.3.1.1 Guidelines
- 7.3.1.2 Apparatus
- 7.3.1.3 Procedure
- 7.3.1.4 Procedure for aligning the infrared probe OP-01
- 7.3.1.5 Procedure for aligning the radian light valve RM-1P
- 7.3.1.6 Procedure for aligning the infrared probe OP-01 and the radian light valve RM-1P
- 7.3.1.7 Calibration console error calculation (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.1.2)
- 7.3.2 Basic procedure for conducting demand accuracy tests
- 7.3.2.1 Guidelines
- 7.3.2.2 General setup
- 7.3.2.3 Procedure for consoles using an internal demand reference meter and an indicating instrument
- 7.3.2.4 Procedure for consoles using an external dedicated demand reference meter with input connections for counting pulses from an external reference meter
- 7.3.2.5 Procedure for consoles using an external dedicated demand reference meter without input connections for counting pulses from an external reference meter
- 7.3.2.6 Formula
- 7.3.3 Minimum duration of accuracy tests (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.1.3)
- 7.3.4 Console configurations, test loads, burdens and burden effects (EL-ENG-12-01, ss. 7.2 and 7.3)
- 7.3.4.1 Purpose
- 7.3.4.2 Guidelines for console configurations
- 7.3.4.3 Test burden (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.2.3)
- 7.3.4.4 Apparatus for assessment
- 7.3.4.5 Procedure for the assessment of test burdens using 1:1 isolation transformers
- 7.3.4.6 Procedure for the assessment of polyphase transformer-type test burdens
- 7.3.4.7 Procedure for the assessment of self-contained test burdens
- 7.3.1 Basic procedure for conducting energy accuracy tests
- 7.4 Variation from position to position (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.4)
- 7.5 Distortion (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.5)
- 7.5.1 Purpose
- 7.5.2 Guidelines
- 7.5.3 Procedures for the assessment of distortion using recti-thermal demand meters
- 7.5.4 Procedure for the assessment of distortion for 1:1 CTS and multiple PTs
- 7.5.5 Procedure for the assessment of distortion for other meters (No 1:1 CT or multiple PT in circuit)
- 7.5.6 Formulae
- 7.6 Regulation (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.6)
- 7.7 Current switching effects (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.7)
- 7.8 Console calibration (EL-ENG-12-01, 7.8)
- 7.8.1 Purpose
- 7.8.2 Guidelines
- 7.8.3 Procedure for 1:1 CT and/or multiple PT calibration
- 7.8.4 Procedure for the calibration of consoles without isolation transformers with other intervening transformers connected between the reference meters and the MUT positions
- 7.8.5 Procedure for the calibration of consoles with the reference meters in the same circuit as the MUT positions
- 7.8.6 Procedure for the calibration of consoles that apply voltage and/or current to individual circuits (elements) of a meter from independent sources
- 7.8.7 Remarks
- 7.9 Measurement uncertainty (EL-ENG-12-01, s. 7.9)
- 7.9.1 Purpose
- 7.9.2 Guidelines
- 7.9.3 Combined console uncertainty
- 7.9.3.1 Influences
- 7.9.3.2 Reduction equation for console uncertainty
- 7.9.3.3 General procedure
- 7.9.3.4 Uncertainty due to burden effects
- 7.9.3.5 Uncertainty due to position-to-position errors
- 7.9.3.6 Uncertainty due to current switching effects
- 7.9.3.7 Uncertainty due to regulation
- 7.9.3.8 Reference standard uncertainty
- 7.9.3.9 Uncertainty due to repeatability
- 7.9.3.10 Official uncertainty figures
- 7.10 Pulse counters and generators
- 7.11 Rangeability
- 8.0 Revisions