Landis & Gyr type MS kilowatt-hour meter
name: label: maker
content: Landis & Gyr Powers, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Landis & Gyr type MS kilowatt-hour meter, residential electric induction meter for measuring power used by consumer. Unit removed from service in 2016 as part of a project to upgrade SMECO’s system to digital smart-meter technology. Four-lug base with glass cover. Five-dial analog readout. Aluminum strip inserted in side of base ring as tamper indictor. CL200 indicates 200 amp service. On meter faceplate: “Rr 138/9 / Kilowatthours / 10594 / Landis & Gyr / CL200 / 240V / 3W Form 2S TA30 / Type MS / II / Kh 7.2 / 60 Hz / 34 623 244 / 9DE 17244 / Single Stator Watthour Meter / Landis & Gyr Lafayette, Indiana / 284”. Label on side reads: “Warning / Hazardous voltage. / Meter tampering or any other / unauthorized use of electricity / is dangerous and is a prosecutable / act under SECTION 6-303 of / the Criminal Law Article of the / Annotated Code of Maryland. / May shock, burn, or cause death. [electrical hazard logo] / Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc.” Stamped on back of unit: “J036”, molded: “Landis & Gyr”. On aluminum seal: “Seal” and “Sealed”. Paper service tag on unit: “Install Ridge Turtle / 594 / FN”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, thru John M. Faunce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0017.07
label: accession number
content: 2017.0017
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0017.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kilowatt-hour meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 7 in; 12.7 cm x 17.78 cm