On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:41:38 -0700, Oren wrote:

Don't know about te battery but they changed out the fronts on our gas
meters to do that. I don't see how a battery can be involved.

No batteries in mine. It is a 40GB transmitter, the truck drives by
and sends a signal to the unit. Then data is sent to the receiver in
the truck.

My comment should have read "No batteries in mine that I'm aware of".

The comment from Caesar Romano jogged my memory about "battery life
was ten years". Oops.