Service for a trade.
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Service for a trade.
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Service for a trade.
I have a unique job. I do maintenance on the new plastic covers of gas meters.
In the US, your gas meter now has a plastic cover that sends a reading of your meter to the utility. (Its literally reading the analog output of your meter's dial. Before, someone had to come out and read it manually. You can still opt-in to that, but pay a higher premium). They are battery powered. I replace the batteries.
So, not a typical trade job.
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I have a unique job. I do maintenance on the new plastic covers of gas meters.
In the US, your gas meter now has a plastic cover that sends a reading of your meter to the utility. (Its literally reading the analog output of your meter's dial. Before, someone had to come out and read it manually. You can still opt-in to that, but pay a higher premium). They are battery powered. I replace the batteries.
So, not a typical trade job.
So, if the meter has one of those old displays with all the little dials, it has some kind of a sensor that reads that and transmits it? Convoluted, but probably much reduces the price compared to retrofitting the actual meter itself.
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So, if the meter has one of those old displays with all the little dials, it has some kind of a sensor that reads that and transmits it? Convoluted, but probably much reduces the price compared to retrofitting the actual meter itself.
I just had to have our meter replaced while we were replacing the water line to our house. The tech who installed it said that the meter cost $5K to replace. Was very glad I didn't have to pay for the new meter on top of the main water line.
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So, if the meter has one of those old displays with all the little dials, it has some kind of a sensor that reads that and transmits it? Convoluted, but probably much reduces the price compared to retrofitting the actual meter itself.
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I just had to have our meter replaced while we were replacing the water line to our house. The tech who installed it said that the meter cost $5K to replace. Was very glad I didn't have to pay for the new meter on top of the main water line.
I'm not actually surprised. Water and gas meters have to work perfectly, for years on end, without leaking or jamming, through rain, ice, and blistering heat. They feel like the kind of invisible infrastructure that we almost never think about, yet is actually some fairly robust engineering with a lot of R&D behind it.
