{"id":2068,"date":"2018-01-26T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:40:19","slug":"reading-your-own-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Reading Your Own Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most power companies provide &#8220;read your own meter&#8221; instructions along with every bill. Never thought much of it until we got a\u00a0<em>really high<\/em> estimated bill this month. Now our Aeon Labs energy meters give us nice digital integers (well, probably floats but still) &#8230; and that number was significantly lower than the power company&#8217;s estimate. So we read our meter.<\/p>\n<p>Their dials do not move a uniform amount as they increment &#8212; is this 60,### or 59,###? Since the third digit is certainly an 8 &#8230; there&#8217;s no way it is 60,8## (otherwise the 0 would need to move almost an entire tenth of the circle by the time our 8 rolls to 0). But it seems very odd that the 9 on the second dial literally won&#8217;t move while the 8 rolls to a 0 either. Why wouldn&#8217;t each needle move constantly over the interval?!?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=2069\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2069\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180126_100445-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180126_100445-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180126_100445-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180126_100445-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most power companies provide &#8220;read your own meter&#8221; instructions along with every bill. Never thought much of it until we got a\u00a0really high estimated bill this month. Now our Aeon Labs energy meters give us nice digital integers (well, probably floats but still) &#8230; and that number was significantly lower than the power company&#8217;s estimate. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[496,497],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-electricity","tag-poor-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}