Your house may have a different electricity meter with dials.
Activity: Reading an electricity dial meter at home
- Ask an adult to find the meter box and check it's safe. Be careful not to touch anything!
- Stand directly in front and read each dial, writing down the numbers from right to left
- When a dial points between two numbers, write down the lower of the two. If it points between 0 and 1, write down 0, but if it points between 9 and 0, write down 9.
- While you are at the switchboard, ask an adult to identify the safety switch/es and test to see if it operates correctly.
How many kilowatt hours (kWh) is represented in the figure?