---------------------------------------------------------------------- Motor | Location |H.P.|Volt |Amp |Service |Date Serviced and Use | | | | |Needed |what was done ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Food | Kitchen |1/6 |120 |4.4 |Clean & Oil; |9/1-Cleaned Mixer | | | | |cord needs |w/cloth. Repair | | | | |repair |Oiled w/#10 Oil; | | | | | |repaired cord ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tool | Farm |1/4 |120 |5.8 |Clear, oiling; |10/6-Cleaned Grinder | Shop | | | |Have switch |w/vacuum Oiled #10 | | | | |Have switch |oil. 10/20-Had | | | | |repaired |switch repaired ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pump |Pump |1/3 |120 |7.2 |Oiling, |9/26-Cleaned |house | | | |cleaning |w/tire pump; | | | | | |oiled w/10 oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LESSON NO. B-7 Credit Points 4 READING THE ELECTRIC METER There is no question but what electricity is one of the lowest cost services in the home and on the farm. A few pennies worth of electricity will provide the power to run machines that take the place of a man or of several men working all day. However, we all like to know what things cost. Sometime you may have to decide between different methods--man, horse, gasoline engine or electric motor power. Then you'll want to know how to figure the cost of electricity, as well as the cost of the original equipment. First of all, you should know how to read an electric meter. Reading a Meter Electric meters read in kilowatt hours, just as a water meter reads in gallons and a gas meter in cubic feet. A kilowatt hour is the electrical energy consumed by 1000 watts of electricity used for one hour. Ten 100-watt light bulbs burning for one hour would use one kilowatt-hour--one kwh. [Illustration: Figure 1. Some meters give the reading directly, like the mileage total on a speedometer.] Some meters are read directly, as shown in Figure 1. The more common type has four dials which are read from right to left--just the opposite from the way things are usually read. The hand on the extreme right turns clockwise, the next hand turns counter-clockwise, the next clockwise; the last hand on the left turns counter-clockwise. The first dial on the right can register up to 10 kilowatt-hours; the second up to 100 kwh; the third, to 1000 kwh; the fourth, to 10,000 kwh. After that, the meter starts over again. To take a reading you must read all four dials of the meter, from right to left. [Illustration: Figure 2. Meter dials are read from right to left.]