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How do I read my digital Neptune water meter?
To read a Neptune E-Coder water meter: Shine a flashlight on the photoelectric eye (look for the flashlight symbol) to activate the screen. The screen eventually will begin to flash between “Reading” and “Rate”.
How do you read a Neptune digital water meter in cubic feet?
Reading your water meter is like reading the odometer of your car. Read all of the numbers from left to right that appear under the words “Cubic Feet.” The first digit on the right represents one cubic foot. The second from the right represents 10 cubic feet.
How do I open my Neptune Water Meter?
seconds on LCD display. Flip open lid to expose face of meter. of flow through the meter. Flip open lid to expose face of meter.
How do you read a 9 digit water meter?
Digital meters: The registers have 9 digits on the face. These last five digits on the right side measure from 1/1000 cubic feet to 10 cubic feet. The next series of numbers to the left is the number of billing units that have passed through the meter. Those are the numbers used to calculate your usage.
What do the numbers mean on a water meter?
Your water meter will have four or five black boxes. What do the numbers mean? Numbers in the black boxes show the amount of cubic metres of water you have used. The numbers in the red boxes record tenths and hundredths of a cubic metre.
How do you read the Neptune E-coder register?
To read your Neptune E-Coder register, expose the solar panel to sunlight or shine a bright light (i.e. flashlight or cell phone flashlight), and the display will activate.
What is a Neptune R900?
R900® Gateway Neptune’s easy-to-use, flexible R900® System gateway fixed network data collector gathers metering data as well as daily leak, reverse flow, and days of no flow alerts from all E-CODER®-equipped meters.
What is the unit of water meter reading?
The meter read equals the gallons (or cubic feet) used while the flow rate equals the number of gallons (or cubic feet) per minute flowing through the water meter.
How do you read a Neptune meter in gallons?
Once you have both readings you will subtract the two readings to get the number of gallons (or cubic feet) used! If the meter reads in Cubic Feet, simply multiply the difference by 7.48 to convert to gallons.
How do you read a water meter in Canada?
The digits to the left of the decimal point measure water usage in cubic meters (1000 litres make 1 cubic meter). The digits on the far right of the meter face (right of the decimal point) are measuring smaller units that make up a cubic meter (hundreds of litres, ten litres and one litre).
What does m3 mean on a water meter?
The water meter records how much water you use in cubic metres (m3). One cubic metre equals 1000 litres – that’s enough for either 13 baths, 14 washing machine loads, 28 showers, 33 dishwasher loads or 111 toilet flushes!.
How do you read a water dial with 6 dials?
If you have a six-dial meter, a label by each dial indicates how many cubic feet that dial is recording. For instance, when the dial labeled “1,000” moves from one digit to the next, that means that 1,000 cubic feet of water have been used. Read the largest dial first and then move down to the smallest dial.
What is a Neptune Water Meter?
Neptune provides a solid foundation for smart water with absolute encoder registers offering utilities options for the functionality they need – from accurate monthly meter reading, to advanced customer consumption data, to priority alarms for continuous leaks and reverse flow events. E-CODER® Register.
What is a Neptune E coder?
The E-CODER® is an electronic absolute encoder register designed for use with Neptune’s Automatic Reading and Billing (ARB®) System. This register operates with Neptune’s R900® and R450™ MIUs, providing advanced features such as leak, backflow, and tamper detection.
What does a water reader look like?
It’s small, round and about the size of a tin of beans. It has a row of black and red numbers, which move round as you use more water.
How do I read my water meter x100?
They typically say things like “x 10”, “x 100”, “x 1,000” etc. Start with the highest number. In our example, that’s the “x 100,000” dial and it is set to “2”. Our first number is 2, which represents 200,000 (2 x 100,000) then go to the next highest numbered dial.
How do you read different water meters?
The dials are marked off in divisions of 10, and are read much like a clock, except that the hand on every other dial turns counterclockwise. To read this meter, begin with the 100,000 dial and read each dial around the meter to the one foot dial. If the hand is between numbers, use the lower number.
What is an e-coder?
A true absolute encoder, the E-CODER® is the foundation of a smart water meter. In addition to all the features of a basic encoder register, when the E-CODER is connected to an R900® or R450™ RF MIU, it provides value-added PLUS features – leak, tamper, and reverse flow detection.
