Who this request is for
You, if you keep a precision pressure gauge or a dead-weight tester as a standard for gas meter work, or if you have another working pressure gauge at a Pennsylvania facility and you want the request recorded.
This page will not take a consumer tire gauge, a home plumbing part, a residential water pressure regulator, or scrap instrument disposal.
The section that names the gauges
The accuracy of testing instruments and equipment used as utility standards, such as dead-weight testers and precision type pressure gauges, which are used in the testing or calibration of meters or associated metering equipment will be checked periodically by the Commission. If the proving system includes automatic testing equipment or any mechanical devices to provide read-out capability—the entire meter proving system, including the basic prover, shall be maintained in good condition and correct adjustment so that it will be capable of determining the accuracy of any service meter to within 0.5%. Each public utility furnishing metered-gas service through orifice, turbine, or large displacement meters shall have available and maintain in proper adjustment test equipment suitable for determining the accuracy of any orifice or large displacement meter used by the utility to within 0.5%.
52 Pa. Code § 59.20, Meter-testing equipment
| Equipment | What the section says |
|---|---|
| Dead-weight testers and precision type pressure gauges | Accuracy checked periodically by the Commission |
| Small-capacity meter proving system | Capable of determining service-meter accuracy to within 0.5% |
| Orifice, turbine, or large displacement meter test equipment | Suitable for determining accuracy to within 0.5% |
What was not measured
Section 59.20 does not state a fee, a shipping method, or a number of months between checks. Periodically is the word it uses for the pressure-gauge standards. The 0.5% figure belongs to the meter test equipment in the same section.
Related: Counties.
Questions the section can answer
Dead-weight testers and precision type pressure gauges used as utility standards in the testing or calibration of meters or associated metering equipment.
No. It says the Commission will check the accuracy of those standards periodically. The 0.5% figure is the meter-proving tolerance, not a gauge price.