consumer unit

The company has more than 14,000 people in its workforce to deliver electric energy at 4.5 million consumer units.

The surveys collect data on expenditures, income, and consumer unit characteristics.

The terms consumer unit, family, and household are often used interchangeably for convenience.

For consoles, the majority of testing is not performed on a normal system or consumer unit.

Those factors produced a 23.2 percent drop in gasoline consumption per consumer unit during the decade, the department reported.

At the same time, the consumer unit shrank 4.7 percent, to about $5.6 billion in revenue.

The consumer unit, Chase's other main business, saw sales climb 12 percent, to $2.16 billion.

The data allow them to track spending trends of different types of consumer units.

These are used in consumer units in some parts of the world, but are becoming less common.

Sales at the consumer unit plunged 26 percent, to $2.8 billion, extending declines.

As in the consumer unit, the problem in the business-services operation did not appear huge.

Fuse boxes and consumer units also contain the system's main isolating switch.

The ring is fed from a fuse or circuit breaker in the consumer unit.

Car ownership also soared, with 72% of consumer units owning an automobile by 1960.

Consumer units have different methods of protecting circuits.

Without the consumer unit, he said, AT&T could be seen as a $42 billion company growing at 12 percent.

Dev kits are usually larger and look different from a test kit or consumer unit.

A dual split-load consumer unit can be arranged as follows:

"Consumer Unit (may also be known as a consumer control unit).

The company shifted workers from semiconductor and consumer units to its heavy electrical division - the only sector where profits did not drop.

September 27, 2011 Average annual expenditures per consumer unit fell 2.0 percent in 2010 following a decrease of 2.8 percent in 2009.

What is a consumer unit?

In every home, the heart of the system is the fuse box (in older houses), or the consumer unit (on modern installations).

Modern consumer units contain miniature circuit breakers which switch off automatically in the event of a fault.

Never tamper with electrical fittings without first switching off mains power supply at the consumer unit.