We change the electric meter - details and features

What do you need to know about electricity meters before installing them? Why is it needed and will it help to save on paying for a communal apartment? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in this article. And you can order services for replacing and installing two-rate electric meters in any trusted installation company, for example here. This organization is the market leader in similar services in Yekaterinburg.

Is it advantageous to install a counter? Yes, because then you will pay for actually consumed electricity, and not at the norm, when at the end of the year there is also the cost of light burned in the entrance. Do you want to pay for others? Here we note that the greatest benefit from installing an electricity meter will be extracted by families of two or three people with a small amount of "gluttonous" technology.

Where to buy electricity meter and how to choose it? In specialized stores - there you will be sold a counter with a passport, a form in which there is an OTC stamp, a verification mark by the manufacturer and number, and also a seal on the case.

By the way! One-tariff or two-tariff? Depends on your household habits, but most choose a two-tariff: at night and on weekends the cost of electricity is less. An interesting fact: it is customary throughout the world to maintain a certain ratio of the amount of energy consumed at different times of the day. Most of it is spent in the morning, when the work of the organization begins, and in the evening, when people come from work and are engaged in household affairs. At night, the energy consumption is sharply reduced, and because of such jumps the equipment of power plants can fail. To equalize the amount of consumption, devices are recommended to be switched on at night. The leadership of many countries decided to encourage this initiative and made the night rate preferential.

Domestic or foreign? Any, but domestic is better adapted to our realities, for example, under voltage surges. In addition, the foreign will have to be reprogrammed.

What type? Depends on where you want to fix the counter. They come with a three-screw or DIN-rail mount. Mounting on three screws is necessary for installation in the access panel, and installation on the DIN-rail - when installing the meter in the apartment or its transfer. Find out what you need, you can at the sales consultants in the store.

The counter is set. What's next? Contact the management company or the HOA for the counter to be sealed. There you also need to find out all the nuances of further exploitation. Representatives of the managing organization will transfer the documents to the meter to the settlement center and about a month after the installation, receipts with updated data will begin to arrive to you.