Hello everyone, my name is Brett Roberts with Schneider Electric. Welcome to the
innovation channel where we discuss innovative products and solutions for
your business. Joined today by my good friend Dan Button. How are you? I'm doing
great Brett, thanks for having me. Yep. Hey, I'm excited to have you here today
because you are gonna talk to us about a kind of an exciting product that's
creating a lot of buzz within Schneider Electric and our distributor partners
and customers. Absolutely. And that is the energy metering kit, correct? Absolutely.
So what Schneider did is after many years of having all these parts and pieces
sitting on their shelf, they've come up with a kit. That kit consists of CTS a
box and a meter. All right, great. I mean, yeah, cuz you're right; we've had meters
for for the longest time. We had all these. Right. And now you guys - and this is what
I think is so cool about this is you have taken the the the different variety
of part numbers can condense them to one part number and and made it a lot simpler
to to order and to select. Absolutely, absolutely.
So part of putting the kit together they had to come up with a solution for an
enclosure, so what we what we did was we came up with a NEMA 4x enclosure. Now
this meets all applications so NEMA 4x, a NEMA12 install, NEMA
1 install. One enclosure one box. It's got a nice clear cover so you're able to see
through it see through and see the meter it also comes with a piece of din rail
inside so you can take your meter and it snaps right into play. Okay. You've got a
nice finger safe cover that comes with it that snaps right over the meter as
well. Oh nice. Yeah, I saw that in this one it's just four screws right here. Alright, cool.
And what was the - this was rated 4x? NEMA 4x. Okay and no no up sell or extra
cost for the for the 4X? It's all the same; same price, Alright. For the kit. Great.
Okay, perfect. Perfect. So let's let's talk about our meter for a second. Our meter
is a great device that allows us to connect 120 208 all the way up to 277480
One meter, we don't care about the
voltages. Oh, nice. We can be one, two, or three phase, same
meter. Okay, so same meter regardless of voltage classification. That is correct. Same box?
Exactly. Alright, that's pretty easy. Yes Yeah. One nice feature that we've added
to our kit and when selecting our meter was we decided to put a meter out there
that had communications built in to it. Okay, so communications meaning Modbus 45,
which would allow us to connect to a building automation system, an existing
power monitoring system or just connect and put data out for the customer. Okay,
and the price range of the product that that competes again in the in the market
doesn't have all those communication features? It does not. It does not. This is not an
up sell to go with this device. So price - similar price but a lot more
communication features. That is correct. And then with the with the kind of the
digital revolution that we're going through and the Internet of Things,
communication piece is a vitally important component of that, correct? Right.
Okay, great. Okay, the next piece that rounds up our
kit are RCTs. Now as you can see, we have one metre enclosure. You have one meter.
These two part numbers don't change in our kits. The only thing that changes is
our CT sizes which can be anywhere from 50 amp all the way up to 2,400 amp. Okay. It could be solid core or split core. Great, alright. And then there was
something finger-safe on this because it was low voltage, right? Yes, so by using a
low voltage CT, we don't have to use extra parts. We don't need a shorting
block or anything like that. Okay, and then how long can these leads be? They
they come out of the box or out or the bag at six feet and can be extended in
the field. Alright great. Well, hey, I thank you; appreciate you sharing this. So one box,
one meter. A couple selections for the for the CTS but that in a sense is the
metering kit correct. That is correct.