Have you received an unusually high bill for this quarter? Its happens to everyone and you can’t help but wonder if the meter reader has read it wrongly and overcharged you. What can you do? Well in Western Australia we has a provider called Western Power who read or estimate your meter usage to determine the amount of power units used. If they can’t access your meter it gets estimated with varying results. Avoid your meter being estimated and install a viewing window and Synery meter box lock or some refer to them as a western power meterbox lock. You have two types of meters for electricity. A newer type that’s digital and an old type which uses dials.
How do I read my dial meter?
Clock-face dial meters have four, five or six dials, which alternate in direction. To read these meters:
- Stand directly in front of the meter
- Starting from the right, read each dial and write down the figures
- When a dial hand points between two numbers, write down the lower of the two
- If the hand points between 0 and 1 write down 0, but if the hand points between 0 and 9, write down 9
For example, the reading in diagram 1 is 2-70-3-8, that is, 27,038 kilowatt hours (units).
- When a dial hand appears to be exactly on a number as on dial (D) in diagram 2, look at dial (C) to the right
- If the hand on dial (C) has not passed 0, the number 5 has not actually been reached on dial (D) and the reading on that dial is the next lower number, 4
- The reading in diagram 2 is 0-4-9-8-1. That is 4,981 kilowatt hours (units)
How do I read my digital meter?
The electro-mechanical digital display meters have a six-digit display similar to the odometer of your car. To read these meters you simply write down the figures that are displayed.
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