On Apr 22, 12:50*pm, Alan W wrote:
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.

Thanks everyone.
Alan, I'll have to look again, but there was indeed some sort of
blinking arrow which has a square block appear occasionally. That
occurred to me, but I remember there was something strange about it,
like sometimes two blocks or something like that. Can't remember. So
I have to figure out how much watts that represents. I will be
getting my utility to do a "free energy audit" after I get my house
cleaned up some, and maybe they can clear things up for me.