That first gadget I mentioned does more or less what
you are thinking of. It is physically attached to the
meter, and can sense some blinking LED or something.
My house's meter is probably as old as the house, and
is the classic electromechanical kind. The gadget
works with that, too.
Doug
--- Mike Frerichs <shoptalk@centipi.com> wrote:
> For the past year-and-a-half or so my local power
> company has been swapping
> out all of the electric meters in Omaha with units
> that can be read via
> radio signal. The meter readers now just drive a
> car down the road
> collecting readings from all the houses that they
> pass, saving them a HUGE
> number of man-hours to read the meters. The new
> meters don't have a
> spinning wheel anymore; they just have an LCD
> display that shows the
> reading. Also, about every 10 seconds or so, the
> display flashes a couple
> of times, changes to zeros, and then goes back to
> the normal reading.
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