imperial digital gas meter reading Ft3 or 100,s of Ft3

harry92music

my meter says it measures in cubic feet .Eon are saying it measures in 100's of cubic feet and therfore they multiply the reading by 2.8 to get m3(or the reading plus two zeros and then dvide by 35.4ft3/m3)
does anyone know about these meters?

penrhyn

http://www.ukpower.co.uk/home_energy/gas_meter_readings/

Cardew

Yes an Imperial gas unit is 100 cubic feet, and approx 31.5kWh(varies slightly from that figure)

A metric gas unit is a cubic metre and approx 11.2kWh

harry92music

i get that but the meter says cubic feet and the red no after the four that you read only goes round every 1 cubic foot( ie .071 ft3 per revolution of the dial and 14 revs to change the no by 1)

SwanJon

It sounds like you have a meter like this.
In this case it is showing 476230 ft3, but the reading (in 00ft3) is 4762.
The 'units figure' for cubic feet is fixed at zero.



Edit: While looking for that found this link. If that isn't your meter are any of these close?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gasmetering/4026625018/in/photostream/

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

Hi harry92music

Great advice on here already. Thanks all.

A 4 dial meter will be imperial. Here, one unit represents the amount of gas needed to fill 100 cubic feet. We do need, though, to charge you in kilowatt-hours (kWh) for the gas used.

The calculation we use to do this can be seen on your bills.

For imperial meters, we take the amount of units used and multiply by 2.83 to convert to cubic metres.

This figure is then multiplied by the conversion factor of 1.02264 and then by the calorific value (this is shown on your bill).

Finally, this figure is divided by 3.6 to give the amount of kWh of gas used.

Cardew's figures are a great way to roughly convert into kWh.

Hope this is of interest. Let me know if you need any more details as happy to help.

Malc