Do this around the same time each month that the utility worker checks the meter.
Electronic water meter reading.
Understand the parts of your analog meter also known as a dial meter and how it works.
This is your gas usage.
A city billing in 1000 gallon increments would read only the white digits and bill for 53 000 gallons.
You can determine how much water you typically consume over a period of time by keeping a simple log.
One gallon or one cubic foot of water passes through the water meter as the sweep hand moves from one number to the next e g 0 to 1.
The disk is turned by the electricity passing through the meter giving a readout of how much electricity you are using.
You should read your meter too.
A complete rotation equals 10 gallons or 10 cubic feet depending on the unit measured.
This saves writing or entering insignificant numbers.
Check your meter once a month and write down the numbers on the reading.
Each part will have the different calculation to convert it into liters.
If you pay different rates for day and night then these will be on screen h and j.
To see your gas reading press the red button or the a button and cycle through to the meter index screen.
This readout is given in kilowatt hours.
Reading the analog display the large sweep hand on the dial measures water use in gallons or cubic feet.
Our automatic meter reading amr solutions let you automatically collect consumption diagnostic and status data from your water electric and gas devices and then transfer that data to a central database for billing and analysis.
Wum reads meters to calculate bills and to prevent water loss.
Take the first reading and the end reading and subtract.
To find your meter reading you need to cycle to screen h.
When manually reading most meter readers ignore the black dark numbers and only read the white numbers which they enter on their meter book or handheld computer to bill by.
You will not get the exact same meter reading that the worker takes but it will be close and you ll be able to notice major discrepancies.
Reading your water meter regularly will help you understand your bills and to understand how you are consuming water.
Your electric meter usually has between four and six dials that advance as a central disk turns.
