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Old 07-20-15, 09:36 AM   #21
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I would like to find an electronic water meter that I could use to track usage but not for the way you would usually think....

We get charged a minimum amount for water every month. It's a certain number of cubic feet and I can't remember the number right now. Anyway in the 5 years here we have always been under and sometimes well under the minimum. Basically paying for water we don't use so we are getting punished for using less water.
The shower heads don't have restrictiors and I hate aerators anyway laminar flow heads are much better and more hygienic. What we want to do is be able to keep an eye on water usage so I can increase lawn watering with city water vs well water since the city water would technically be free.

I'm all for conserving water but not when I'm being charged more to do so.

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Old 07-20-15, 04:34 PM   #22
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What kind of meter do you currently have?
Most of them have customer readable metering displays.
I read ours and write the cubic feet on the calender once a month.. Easy.


My new R450M meter is a tad weird, in that it has a battery inside the outdoor module (with the radio).
And the the flow detector gizmo indoors has a solar cell (Looks like a PV cell)
with an LCD readout for cubic feet and GPM (for real-time flow).
However, it doesn't display any numbers, until I open the dust cover
and shine a light on the solar cell..
Turn off my flashlight and a few seconds later, the LCD turns off..

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Old 07-20-15, 04:47 PM   #23
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Thats a cool looking meter. Fancier than the digital one in Loml's mom's house in ohio which also has a similar system.

Ours is the newer of the old style mechanical meters. It has the slow leak spinner and measures in cubic ft. Wish it measured in gallons. It's buried about a foot in the ground just outside the garage in the easement. The old style round iron cover ground box from 1960.
No frost line here.

Out house is pier and beam and when I replace the rest of the line under the house the main line will run into the garage from under the house into a filter/softener and I'd like to put in a meter that I can digitally read say by computer or other logging method.
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I've seen some digital meters on Ebay. Mostly for lawn watering hose use.
But, they do sale water meters of all kinds.. Don't know about remote reading. Maybe.

I use a free windows program called Convert. https://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/
It converts just about everything I need converted.. Very handy for the DIYer.
(Also used on the ISS)..

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