How to read your home electric meter

Have you ever wondered how to read your home electric meter? In this video I go over how to read your electric meter. Reading your own meter lets you avoid the electric company's estimated bills and prevents having to let a stranger into your house to read the meter.
If you live in the NYC area, this is how Con Edison reads your meter. You can submit your own reading online at: coned.com
Or by phone at 1-800-752-6633

[@marlenedelgado2634]

Thank you so much for this video.

[@user-yb3ch5uv7s]

Thank u so much it helps me a lot, i am super confusing how to read thanks much

[@chuckvedrene703]

Very helpful and thorough and I will do just as you did. Really good.

[@j.darrel517]

Great info thank you

[@richardlorenzo7695]

Thanks❤❤

[@user-vp6eh7kq7q]

Excellent. Now how do the four numbers translate to the KW useage?

[@jesssuch8249]

thanks buddy

[@ilamay77]

How are you factoring in the multiplier? They won't let us read our own meters. Are you still on a analog meter?

[@DelmaTommy]

That was great

[@richardblanchard561]

is it possible 2 have 1 power supply with 2 meters for an appartment

[@hman2912]

Ha ha. The electric company takes your word for it? Tell them it only went up half as much, or quarter. In Australia, they would never let you "self report"

[@LawoftheLandPA]

He says some meters have an extra dial. WHHHHHHHYYYYYYY? Why say this and then not explain WHY??!

[@williewallace424]

How do you know when they are over charging on reading your meter

[@jgbalboa]

look at your bill, they all show the meter reading and you can compare with your reading. For example, if they report 7890, but you go down and see 4567, then you have a case.

[@lintelallen3247]

They are not using these meters in Jamaica again.

[@KMTV9]

So what's the point of telling us that you need to read from right to left if you write the number in the same location? I thought you will read it right to left but you will write from left to right. make no sence right?

[@DownLow0099]

Reading right to left is to help verify what the next number (to the left) is actually supposed to be. It's meant to be a check of accuracy. The disks are all sequenced from right to left with mechanical gears. You can end up having fast or slow dials as well so again the one to the right of that dial will help verify. What about the first dial? (far right) Newer meters have a check dial for the far right dial. It's just a little dial above it with no numbers.
So ever time a zero gets passed it advances the dial to the left to a whole number, or should...

[@jgbalboa]

@@DownLow0099 , No, he confused me too when he said, "read it right to left", but he never did that. He read it left to right, and wrote it left to right. I was waiting for him to start writing on reverse and then explain how to flip it, but never happened...

[@donaldblackmon36]

if number 5 or more round down for next number

[@chris18228]

Mine has 8

[@debraward1813]

Why are he dials clockwise and counterclockwise??

[@danybrean9918]

It makes no difference what so ever what way you READ the meter, as long as you WRITE it down the way you see it, from left to right. Yes, when it's between two numbers or not dead on a number then you write down the lower number. But you have not explained that when you get a situation where a number is between 9 and 0. Then you always put 9 down, because the zero is not actually 0 it's 10, so 9 is lower than 10, plus NOW the number you wrote down to the left of that 9 might have to be one digit lower than you originally put down. For example - if you wrote 4798 down, then the 9 was either BETWEEN 9 and 0 or dead ON 9, so either way you put 9 down, but if you put 9 down because it was between 9 and 0 , AND the number to the LEFT of the 9 was exactly ON a number (in this example 7) then you have to make the 7 a 6, making the reading 4698. There are sometimes extra dials (clock faces) on a meter board other than 4. It may be a different color to the others and your electric company will tell you whether you need to read those ones or not. All meters have serial numbers to tell which one is which, so your bill will tell you which meter they read and the serial number of that meter. If you live in an apartment for example then check the serial number against all meters in the basement or where ever they keep them and then you will know which meter is yours.

[@neoprotwo]

dany brean incorrect, the number to the left can change the reading. It may look like a 9 but might actually be a 0 which would change the entire reading. I’m a Meter Reader that’s how I know

[@nickybalane446]

The first to move around is the first dial which is on the right side on how face it to the meter, so that's is why you have to put it down first, and it will change affect the next dial if the meter on the right reaches on zero, any no. reach on zero stands for 10 is actually rounding off the next no.

[@doctorzaius4084]

This is completely wrong, if you want to get a correct reading you'll always start from the right and work your way left. Being off by 1 digit in the thousands (or higher) of kwh is a huge difference in billing and the dial hands aren't always perfectly aligned. They work exactly like an odometer, so just think of it that way. The hundreds kwh dial will move one digit for every full revolution of the tens kwh dial, the thousands dial will move one digit for every full revolution of the hundreds kwh dial, etc., etc. If you start from the right, it becomes immediately obvious which digit the dial hands are pointing to.

[@danybrean9918]

@@neoprotwo Thank you for correcting me. :)

[@danybrean9918]

@@doctorzaius4084 Thank you for pointing that out. Explains my bills lol.

[@TheJoypool]

Why didn't you multiply by 10?

[@kalimmiller8923]

2587. Or 7852

[@phuckewe178]

My meters are wireless. The guy does need to come in my house any longer.

[@theloser9783]

At the end where he talks about safety, that's just irrelevant to the topic of the video.