4. MPE

Table 1 Net Load (m) in verification scale intervals (e) Maximum permissible mean error Maximum permissible error XI Y(I) XII Y(II) XIII Y(a) XIIII Y(b) X Y 0 < m ≤ 50000 0 < m ≤ 5000 0 < m ≤ 500 0 < m ≤ 50 ± 0,5 e ± 1 e 50000 < m ≤ 200000 5000 < m ≤ 20000 500 < m ≤ 2000 50 < m ≤ 200 ± 1,0 e ± 1,5 e 200000 < m 20000 < m ≤ 100000 2000 < m ≤ 10000 200 < m ≤ 1000 ± 1,5 e ± 2 e Maximum permissible value for the standard deviation of a class X (x) instrument is the result of the multiplication of the factor (x) by the value in Table 2 below. Table 2 Net Load (m) Maximum permissible standard deviation for class X(1) m ≤ 50 g 0,48 % 50 g < m ≤ 100 g 0,24 g 100 g < m ≤ 200 g 0,24 % 200 g < m ≤ 300 g 0,48 g 300 g < m ≤ 500 g 0,16 % 500 g < m ≤ 1000 g 0,8 g 1000 g < m ≤ 10000 g 0,08 % 10000 g < m ≤ 15000 g 8 g 15000 g < m 0,053 % For class XI and XII (x) shall be less than 1. For class XIII (x) shall be not greater than 1. For class XIIII (x) shall be greater than 1. Table 3 Accuracy classes Verification scale interval Number of verification scale intervals nMaxe Minimum Maximum XI Y(I) 0,001 g ≤ e 50000 — XII Y(II) 0,001 g ≤ e ≤ 0,05 g 100 100000 0,1 g ≤ e 5000 100000 XIII Y(a) 0,1 g ≤ e ≤ 2 g 100 10000 5 g ≤ e 500 10000 XIIII Y(b) 5 g ≤ e 100 1000 Table 4 For i = r the corresponding column of Table 3 applies with e replaced by e_(r). Accuracy classes Verification scale interval Number of verification scale intervals nMaxe Minimum value nMax_(i)e_((i 1)) Maximum value nMax_(i)e_(i) XI Y(I) 0,001 g ≤ e_(i) 50000 — XII Y(II) 0,001 g ≤ e_(i) ≤ 0,05 g 5000 100000 0,1 g ≤ e_(i) 5000 100000 XIII Y(a) 0,1 g ≤ e_(i) 500 10000 XIIII Y(b) 5 g ≤ e_(i) 50 1000 Where: i= 1, 2, … r i= partial weighing range r= total number of partial ranges

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