My electric meter happens to be on the side of my house above a steep set of stairs. I had seen it all the time and wondered what it was when I was younger, but I forgot it existed in recent years. When we use electricity, the current is sent through the electric meter. The current first goes through a coil, making the coil become an electromagnet. The electromagnet induces a current in the second coil. The two coils's magnetic field lines enforce each other to make a disc spin. This disc turns the wheels of the five mini-sized counters. The electricity current which ran into the electric meter continues through and goes into the house to power the appliances, like the refrigerater. That is how the electric meter works. It is strange that I have never seen the meter reader come around.
This picture is the first on this blog from a camera. My mom let me use her camera and I was able to figure out how to put the pictures on the computer! yay.
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