Duncan type MK-S kilowatt-hour meter
name: label: maker
content: Duncan Electrical Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Duncan type MK-S 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. Lead seal wired on back as tamper indictor. CL200 indicates 200 amp service. On meter faceplate: “Kilowatt Hours / 77961 / Duncan / CL200 / 240V / 3W Type / MK-S / 9 054 450 / Single Stator Watthour Meter / 60 [ac logo] / TA 30 / Kh12 / 9-DE-90 / Rr 831/3 Kr 10 or Rf 81/3 Kr1 / Duncan Electric Co. Inc. Lafayette, Ind. U.S.A. 73”. Label on side reads: “Warning / Meter tampering or any other unauthorized use of / electricity is dangerous and is a prosecutable act / under ARTICLE 27, Section 194 and/or Section 342 / of the ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND. / Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc.” Molded on back: “Duncan”. On lead seal: “80” and “[S]MEC”. Stamped: “CAL / BY / O.L.”
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: 2017.0017.09
label: accession number
content: 2017.0017
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0017.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kilowatt-hour meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 7 in; 15.24 cm x 17.78 cm