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Utilities Direct - Digital Meters

How to Read an Economy 7 Meter

You will be presented with two sets of readings for this type of meter as shown below. You will need to record both sets of readings, one for the “LOW” rate and one for the “NORMAL” rate, taking the reads from left to right and ignoring the final digit in red.

The meter reading for this example would be a LOW of 46043 and a NORMAL of 32436

How to Read a standard Digital Meter

Digital meters have a push button located next to the display.  When this button is pushed the display will change. Different meters in different parts of the UK may have different cycle displays so the example below may not be correct for your meter but it will give you some idea. If you are still unsure of how to read in then please contact us and we will help you.

1 Push - Test Display

2 Pushes - Current Time

3 Pushes - Current Date

4 Pushes - Rate 1

5 Pushes - Rate 2

6 Pushes - Rate 3

7 Pushes - Rate 4

8 Pushes - Rate 5

9 Pushes - Rate 6

10 Pushes - Total number of All Rates