Help to read my electric meter (photograph)

Reed_Richards

gefnew said:

There is no serial number on the meter for any reference.so could be any thing.
If solar gen meter it would have seral number also.

I blanked out the serial number with a black rectangle on the image I posted.  I think the OP did the same thing.  What's underneath is a bar code and the meter reference given on my electricity bill.

gefnew

Argh sorry wrong glasses on not enough coffee.

imeach

SAC2334 said:

Reed_Richards said:

This is a picture of the electricity meter in my house (taken a year ago today but it's still here).
The reading has a decimal point and six digits.
Nominally it is made by Ampy Metering (it does not say Landis & Gyr).
The date of installation is 29/7/8 as recorded on the label.
The bottom plate does not have a seal.
The reading alternates with rEd because I have solar panels.
None of my electricity suppliers, present or past, have shown any inclination to replace it.

I ve seen thousands of those but they are always just solar panel Ampy meters. Personally I ve never seen that on a normal domestic electric meter .
No worries about the lack of a security seal on the lower cover screw. Meter fitters can t be bothered to fit them nowadays
.Seems to be the trend now to make meter bypassing even more easy when many new build properties omit them. 
On my data collector I was obliged  to note the missing security seals .They never replaced them .
Ebay sell these security tags and seals anyway so not difficult to source 

Wow, can't believe you never saw those on domestic in 20 years

Strangely we have to report missing security seals rather than just record it

SAC2334

imeach said:

SAC2334 said:

Reed_Richards said:

This is a picture of the electricity meter in my house (taken a year ago today but it's still here).
The reading has a decimal point and six digits.
Nominally it is made by Ampy Metering (it does not say Landis & Gyr).
The date of installation is 29/7/8 as recorded on the label.
The bottom plate does not have a seal.
The reading alternates with rEd because I have solar panels.
None of my electricity suppliers, present or past, have shown any inclination to replace it.

I ve seen thousands of those but they are always just solar panel Ampy meters. Personally I ve never seen that on a normal domestic electric meter .
No worries about the lack of a security seal on the lower cover screw. Meter fitters can t be bothered to fit them nowadays
.Seems to be the trend now to make meter bypassing even more easy when many new build properties omit them. 
On my data collector I was obliged  to note the missing security seals .They never replaced them .
Ebay sell these security tags and seals anyway so not difficult to source 

Wow, can't believe you never saw those on domestic in 20 years

Strangely we have to report missing security seals rather than just record it

I have seen these Ampy meters with the decimal point  many times in domestic meters but only on solar panel meters and of course in the loony  Secure Liberty meters with 8 digits .

 I m not sure what your  "wow ! is supposed to infer but thats how it is in S.Yorks .
I ve been retired 5 years now so maybe Ampy have made more of these priamarily for solar panels and now they re finding their way into normal domestics 

.They don t make sense putting them on meters because it will end up with false readings by customers with poor close vision .When there is a leading zero some will submit  false readings . Electric meters for domestics have always been billed  with only 5 digits 
There are new build estates with hundreds of properties with no security seals on any of the electric meters, so if I had to physically report it by phone then that is what I d be doing all day.
How long have you worked as a meter reader and who are you now working for ?
 

imeach

SAC2334 said:

imeach said:

SAC2334 said:

Reed_Richards said:

This is a picture of the electricity meter in my house (taken a year ago today but it's still here).
The reading has a decimal point and six digits.
Nominally it is made by Ampy Metering (it does not say Landis & Gyr).
The date of installation is 29/7/8 as recorded on the label.
The bottom plate does not have a seal.
The reading alternates with rEd because I have solar panels.
None of my electricity suppliers, present or past, have shown any inclination to replace it.

I ve seen thousands of those but they are always just solar panel Ampy meters. Personally I ve never seen that on a normal domestic electric meter .
No worries about the lack of a security seal on the lower cover screw. Meter fitters can t be bothered to fit them nowadays
.Seems to be the trend now to make meter bypassing even more easy when many new build properties omit them. 
On my data collector I was obliged  to note the missing security seals .They never replaced them .
Ebay sell these security tags and seals anyway so not difficult to source 

Wow, can't believe you never saw those on domestic in 20 years

Strangely we have to report missing security seals rather than just record it

I have seen these Ampy meters with the decimal point  many times in domestic meters but only on solar panel meters and of course in the loony  Secure Liberty meters with 8 digits .

 I m not sure what your  "wow ! is supposed to infer but thats how it is in S.Yorks .
I ve been retired 5 years now so maybe Ampy have made more of these priamarily for solar panels and now they re finding their way into normal domestics 

.They don t make sense putting them on meters because it will end up with false readings by customers with poor close vision .When there is a leading zero some will submit  false readings . Electric meters for domestics have always been billed  with only 5 digits 
There are new build estates with hundreds of properties with no security seals on any of the electric meters, so if I had to physically report it by phone then that is what I d be doing all day.
How long have you worked as a meter reader and who are you now working for ?
 

The wow was obviously my surprise that you had never seen them, the clue was in the word.

There are quite a few normal domestic meters with a decimal point and with more than five digits, not just the Secure Liberty.

Been in meter reading business 9 years or so, currently at Morrison Data Services