News - Basic knowledge about Electricity Meters

Currently most of electricity meters are prepaid meters. If you pay enough for the electricity at one time, you can ignore paying the electricity for several months. How much do you know about the current smart prepaid electricity meters? Well, lets explore some basic knowledge of electricity meters as following.

What do the indicator lights on the electricity meter stand for?

 

pulse

Pulse light: when the power is normally used, the pulse indicator light flashes. If the pulse light is not on, there is no power connected to the electricity meter. The faster the light flashes, the faster the meter runs. When pulse indicator blinks 1200 times, it indicates that 1kWh(kWh) power has been used.

Credit light: when the credit is overdue, the credit light will be on to remind the users to charge the credit.

 

 

credit light

 How to read the LCD screen?

We can check the degree through the meter LCD screen. The displayed number  is our cumulative power used and the current date and time. The actual electricity consumption in a period is equal to the difference between the number indicated on  the electricity meter  at the end of the period and the number indicated on  the electricity meter at the beginning. The ordinary electricity meters can be  accurate with two decimal places.  There is the peak and valley electricity price and it will also shows the peak and valley electricity quantity, by which  you can also read  last month's electric quantity and the previous month's electric quantity.

button

The white button is used to check the electricity meter information. The screen will scroll up and down  every time when you press it. On  the reading window, it will display many professional information, such as the current price, the current date, and the total active power  etc.

 

SM350 prepaid seal

 

Please pay attention to the circled sealed parts, which can't be damaged, otherwise, it will be regarded as tampering to be recorded in the system.

 

 


Post time: May-10-2021