The rate number and it s correlation to day or night depends on how the meter was set up.
Electric meter reading rate 1 rate 2.
For this meter type you need to take two readings reading 1 and 2.
I ve been with utility warehouse for my electricity since november 2013 i am a little confused by which is the day which is the night reading on my electricity metre.
To have an economy 7 tariff you will have an economy 7 meter a 2 rate meter that records your day and night electricity usage separately.
A two rate meter or economy 7 meter will give you two meter readings one for your day usage and one for your night usage.
One rate records all energy used during the day and the other rate records energy used overnight.
Some will display your readings as low and normal others will show as day and night and some as.
For single rate electricity meters press 9 on your keypad.
Press the a button to go through the meter s screens.
Press 6 a few times until you see imp r01 followed by a reading.
It ll give you a reading for each rate.
To read this meter.
Press 6 again until you see imp r02 followed by a reading.
Press the b button for 2 seconds to bring up the meter s readings.
To provide a reading for night rate electricity press the red button.
Usually the higher one will be your meter s day reading and the lower one will be the night reading.
I though rate 1 was day the higher of the 2 rate 2 was night but following a hike in our monthly budget plan from 89 to 170 per month because we are over 300 in.
The readings may be labelled as rate 1 r1 and rate 2 r2.
To read the meter write down the numbers shown left to right for each reading.
First just check your meter says multirate single phase watt hour meter along the top if it doesn t you need the digital meter.
There will be 2 readings labelled rate both shown in the unit kwh these are your meter s current readings.
This is usually your night or off peak reading.
Discover how to read an electricity meter from smart meters to prepayment meters and economy 7 meters.
They will either flash up the different rate readings in a cycle or have a button that you need to press to make the display cycle through the readings for the different rates.
You may also have other rates or readings on the meter which could be the live usage or the total usage.
For 2 rate economy 7 electricity meters.
If it s an older economy 7 meter you ll see both readings on the front.
It s easy to use economy 7 and domestic economy you get one meter which has two rates.
You ll see imp kwh and a reading followed by kwh.
They ll be shown differently depending on your meter but they work and are read in the same way.
