Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-16
OF RATES By LADYSMITH
LIGHTING co.

W.
At the mass meeting held at the
court house Nov. Z, we tried to explain
how to apply the new light rates of
fered 10 each consumer. We are how
ever afraid that there were several
people in the audience who did not get
the full understanding of the way
these rates should be applied.
In the following article we will try
to explain the rates, and we will ask
everybody interested to cut this article
out of the paper and bring it to our of
flee i'm case there still should be some
points about which they may be in
doubt
Electricity is measured in watts lin
lighting a watt is approximately equal
to l candle and in power a watt is ap-
prOXimately equal to 1-746 of a horse
pOwer) all electric appliances such as
lamps, fiat irons, coasters, ETC., are
rated according to their size in watts,
a forty watt lamp consumes forty
watts. a % watt lamp consumes %
watts
One kilOwatt is as the name indi-
Gates (BilO meaning thOusand) equal
to 1000 watts. Two % watt lamps
30 watts. four 60 watt lamps make a
total. or as we term it, a total con-
nected load of four times 60 or 24O
watts. and this term connected load"
is used to distinguish between load
and connected IOad;' a house might
have an installation of five 60 watt
lamps which make a connected load OF
300 watts suppOsing one of these lamps
is burning. there will be load of go
watts and as stated above a connected
load of 800 watts
From this it can be seen, that house
may have a connected load of any size
at all and still even not be attached
TO the wires outside of the building
just as well as any hall or building
may have a seating capacity of 1000
people and still it may be empty.
The next thing to understand is the
difference between a watt and watt
hour. or if we take a larger quantity
1000 watthOurs which is equal to a
kilOwatthour.
Surprising a house has a number of
lamps burning amounting to one kilO-
watt. This means that at each mo-
,oo,,t QUO +bouSand vattc or ono lyiIO-
watt passes through the wires and the
meter. this load one kilowatt used one
hour will register on the meter as one
killOwatthOur. the same load used one
half hour will register as One-half kilO-
watthour. or used two hours will regis
ter as two kilOwatthOurS, or if two
kilOwatthOurs are used during a period
of two hours. at the end of this period
the meter will show four kilOwatt-
hours. From this it can be seen that
in order to get the number of kilowatt-
hours used it is necessary to multiply
the number of kulOwatts used by
the number of hours use, and the re-
suit will be the number of kilOwatt-
hours used
We use the amount kilowatthOurs as
this is the unit which the hands on the
meter indicates.
In regard to rates, we want to eX-
plain to everybody the reason why the
larger consumer gets more favorable
rate than the smaller consumer.
In order to make this plain let us
take an extreme case, supposing two
customers come in our office and each
want 100 horse power, they do not tell
us how much they intend to use this
power, they simply want us to provide
capacity in our plant, in the wires on
the streets down to their particular
places and transformer capacity enough
at their place of business SO that we
will be able to furnish them 100 horse
power at any time they might want it.
We will assume that each installa-
ton means an investment of 100000
for us, and that we are supposed to
make a profit of per cent of our in
yestment on the cost of producing cleo