{"id":60671,"date":"2023-09-06T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=60671"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:43:38","slug":"bill-shock-meter-read-ameliorization-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/bill-shock-meter-read-ameliorization-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Shock Meter Read Ameliorization Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/bill___shock.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Bill Shock Meter Read Ameliorization Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/bill___shock.gif\" title=\"Bill Shock Meter Read Ameliorization Tutorial\" style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Shock Meter Read Ameliorization Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There can be quite big shocks (called <a target=_blank title='Bill Shock information from Wikipedia, thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_shock'>&#8220;Bill Shock&#8221;<\/a>) associated with utility bills, but it might be advantageous to read the small print of the Bill&#8217;s email.   For us, a recent shock was partly due to the electricity meter not having been read, in the normal course of events, before an Electricity Bill arrived.<\/p>\n<p>But read further, and you might see that you can enter in your own Meter Readings based on reality rather than a scary projection, and if your supplier knows that, they&#8217;ll adjust the Bill Charge down, with this knowledge that you help pass on to them.  <font size=1>Mind you, and it&#8217;s happened to us before, it can be pleasant to get the smaller bills to follow a &#8220;projection reading&#8221; shock, should you have the money to pay up front?!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>We researched this, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we found the two meters concerned &#8230; major <font size=5>yayyyyyyyy!!!!<\/font> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>the big number down the bottom is not the number needed &#8230; it is the meter serial number &#8230; minor <font size=3>ooooohhhhhh<\/font> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>but looking on the website, entering in meter readings, and <a target=_blank title='Animated GIF presentation' href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/bill___shock.gif\">looking at those top set of gauges<\/a> &#8230; <font size=1><br \/>\n<details style=display:inline-block;>\n<summary>(you might want to test yourself reading)<\/summary>\n<p>96253<br \/>07754<\/details>\n<p><\/font> &#8230; yes, what we can read for each meter makes sense as being a little bit above the last reading &#8230; so, let&#8217;s persist &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; entering in via our iPhone Camera app assisted way to manually enter in new electricity meter readings, and smooth out the Bill Shock, as you can see happening with <a target=_blank title='Animated GIF presentation' href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/bill___shock.gif\">today&#8217;s animated GIF<\/a> presentation.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d60671' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d60671\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/utility\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d60671' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There can be quite big shocks (called &#8220;Bill Shock&#8221;) associated with utility bills, but it might be advantageous to read the small print of the Bill&#8217;s email. 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