Prepaid Meters Can Actually Set Alarms to Prevent Electricity Theft, Here are the Codes

Dream - Electricity customers certainly have a power measuring device called an electric meter or kWh meter. Almost all homeowners may know that this device only functions to measure how much electricity is used every day and accumulated for a month to become a bill.

Although electricity services are becoming more advanced, the role of the electric meter can never be eliminated. Currently, we are familiar with kWh meters with prepaid electricity systems (tokens).

One of the differences of this kwh meter model is the alarm function that automatically sounds when the remaining token has reached the minimum limit.

But did you know that prepaid electricity users can also adjust the alarm for the minimum kWh limit? The way is by entering numerical codes into the token.

Not only adjusting the alarm, prepaid electricity users can also find out if someone is stealing electricity through your meter.

For your information, there are several brands of prepaid electric meters that are widely used by the public, including Melcondia, Itron, Sanxing, Hexing. Here are the secret token codes for Melcondia meters.

- Code 123, is the code to change the meter alarm interval. If you want the alarm to sound every 20 minutes, you can enter the number 123 020 on your meter.

- Code 69, is the code to find out how many times the electricity has gone out.

- Code 41, is the code to check the power consumption.

- Code 47, is the code to check the electric current. This code is suitable for knowing whether there are irresponsible parties stealing your electricity.

- Code 456, code to change the alarm limit. For example, if you set the minimum limit for your house to be 5 KWH, then you can press the number 456 05 on your meter.

- Code 59, code to find out the last KWH.

- Code 83, code to find out the electricity consumption last month.

- Code 84, code to find out the electricity consumption used in the last 2 months.

- Code 85, code used to find out the electricity consumption in the last 3 months.

Source: Merdeka.com