How to read your dial electricity meter

To read a dial electricity meter, look at the position of the pointers on the dials. The dials will look like this example, which shows six dials in total:

• Read the dials from left to right starting with the dial marked 10,000. Do not read the dial marked 1/10.

• If the pointer on a dial is between two numbers, write down the lower number. This may not be the number nearest to the pointer.

• If the pointer is between 0 and 9, use 9.

• If the pointer is exactly on a number, write it down and underline it.

• If any of the underlined numbers you have written down are followed by a 9, you will need to take one away from the number you’ve underlined.

• So the reading in the example is 94694.

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