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Electricity Meter Readings

The image below is a close-up of the dials on the meter from the previous page. Each dial represents a number.

electricity meter with dials in kWh

Reading the dials clockwise from the top:

The red dial reads the tenths of a unit: ·0 in this case
The next dial reads: 2
Then: 30 (three 10's)
And: 200
Next: 8,000 (eight 1,000's)
Lastly: 60,000

This gives a total of 68,232.0 kWh


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