If you want to know how much water is used at home, but don't know how to look at the water meter? Learning to look at the water meter by ourselves can not only help us save water and avoid waste, but we can also know the statistics of water charges. So, how do you look at the water meter?
What do you need to know when reading the water meter?
- The unit of measurement of water meters is cubic meters (m³), because the density of water at standard temperature and pressure is close to 1 gram per cubic centimeter, so 1 cubic meter of water is approximately equal to 1 ton. The water consumption can be calculated by subtracting the water meter reading of the previous month to obtain the water meter reading of the current month, that is, the water meter indication value of this month minus the water meter indication value of the previous month. In addition, the decimal part below the cubic meter can usually be ignored.
- Water meters use a decimal progressive counting method. Taking a household water meter as an example, the water meter indication value usually has four digits (black pointer), and its calculation unit is cubic meters (i.e., tons). Below the cubic meter, there are four digits (red pointers) of 1/10, 1/100, 1/1000, and 1/10000, which represent readings of 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, and 0.0001 cubic meters, respectively.
- Meter reading method: Since the water meter pointer rotates clockwise, just read the number pointed to by each pointer. When the pointer is between two numbers, read the smaller number. For example, the pointer reads 2 when it is between 2 and 3, and reads 7 when it is between 7 and 8. The only exception is when the pointer is between 0 and 9, it reads 9.
How to read various water meters?
- Combination of Digital Wheel and Multiple Pointers Display
Reading the black digital wheel:
Ten thousand place: 0
Thousand place: 0
Hundred place: 0
Ten place: 0
Unit place: 1 (close to 1, fixed as 1)
- Pointer-only Display
Reading the black pointers:
Thousand place (×1000): 2
Hundred place (×100): 2
Ten place (×10): 6
Unit place (×1): 1
- Combination of Digital Wheel and Single Pointer Display
Reading the black digital wheel:
Hundred thousand place: 0
Ten thousand place: 0
Thousand place: 0
Hundred place: 0
Ten place: 1
Unit place: 1
Note: The red pointers are used for factory inspection and do not need to be considered.
Taking the following figure as an example, the water meter reading should be 0.5654m³.
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