On 4/21/2009 2:46 PM, Snozz wrote:

I have a new digital meter on my little house. I am trying to figure
out how much electricity is being drawn whenever most of my appliances
are off. I used to be able to gauge this by how long it took one
revolution of the wheel on the old meters. On this meter there is no
wheel, just a LCD readout. It lists the kWh and a couple other things
I don't recognize. It is a Elster, and has the identifiers Type2SD
and also e239953, which I thought might have been model #'s, but I
can't find anything on these, like a product manual.

Some digital meters have a single LCD segment (usually a square block or
arrow) that blinks once to correspond to one revolution of a mechanical
meter. I think there might also be a second blinky that indicates some
fraction of a revolution.