Westinghouse type DS kilowatt-hour meter
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Westinghouse type DS 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. Four-dial analog readout. Aluminum strip inserted in side of base ring as tamper indictor. On meter faceplate: “Rr 277/9 / Westinghouse / 5836 / Kilowatt hours / S<-->F / 15 AMPS / Kh 3.6 / Type DS / 60 [ac logo] / Single / Phase / Made in U.S.A. / Watthour / Meter / Style / 2P2G4 / 240 VOLTS / 3 Wire / 7-WE-2447 / 30 917 983”. 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.” On aluminum seal: “Seal” and “Sealed”. “W” molded on base.
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: 2017.0017.11
label: accession number
content: 2017.0017
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0017.11
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