Reading Your Utility Meter

Al Carrell: Unless you cook on a wood stove and read by a kerosene lamp and watch a gas powered television set, you get one of these every month. It's the electric bill. It's based on the number of kilowatt hours that you've used and the power company figures that out by reading this meter out here. I'm going to show you how easy it is to read the meter. What you want to do is start over in the far right-hand side whether you have four or five dials, and take the number right here. This is between six and seven, it hadn't quite reached seven, so we'll put down six. We go on to the next one, it's between six and seven and we'll put down another six. The next one is eight and the next one is six and the next one is three.

Now at the same time next month you want to take another reading, and you'll put this reading down and subtract the one we got today from that and that gives you the number of kilowatt hours. After two or three months, if the reading is off very much from the way the utility company has it, then you ought to check on it. Otherwise, it's not going to be the same, cause you're not reading at exactly the same time. Now, you probably wonder how the utility company is able to read something like this in the back yard with a big fence around it. Well, they have a spy glass like this and they can stand out there and zero right in.

Episode 021 1995 - 96 Season

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