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MCS301 meter - product Manual 1.25 MetCom Solutions GmbH
10 Tariff Management
The meter supports an activity calendar object. In this tariff scheme two different types can
be defined:
• Active tariff scheme
• Passive tariff scheme
Furthermore the meter supports a configurable “default tariff rate”. This rate is used by the
meter when the meter detects malfunctioning on its clock. When meter’s clock is not running
properly, the energy values are accumulated in this default tariff rate and no other rates will
be used.
Tariff program is implemented with set of objects that are used to configure different seasons
or weekly and daily programs, to define which certain tariffs should be active. Also different
actions can be performed with tariff switching like for example
• registering energy values in different tariffs
• registering demand values in different tariffs
• Switching on/off bi-stable relay.
Graphical tariff program illustration can be seen on figure below.
Figure 15: Tariff management
The TOU capabilities are:
• Up to 8 tariffs,
• Up to 12 seasons tariff programs,
• Up to 12 week tariff programs,
• Up to 12 day tariff programs,
• Up to 11 switching actions per day tariff program,
• Up to 90 special day date definitions.