Reading your 'dial' electricity meter

To read a dial meter look at the position of the pointers on the dials and follow these instructions:

- Read the dials from left to right, starting with the dial marked 10,000.

- Ignore the dial marked 1/10 as it is only used for testing.

- When the pointer is between two numbers, always write down the lower number. This is not necessarily the nearest number to the pointer.

- If the pointer is exactly on a number, write it down and underline it.

- If any of the numbers that you have underlined are followed by a 9, you will need to take one away from the number that you have underlined.

The reading on this example is 94694

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