Saturday, October 18, 2008

How high is your electric...meter?

This high?



I took this photo somewhere between Quirino Avenue and Osmeña Avenue. It is a picture of a group of electric meters placed high on top of a wooden structure – approximately 20 or so feet high.

It is the second such structure that I have seen the other one was closer to the Aurora LRT. I keep seeing it when I ride the train to Cubao and the electric meters seem to be just on the level of the rails.

Some officemates say there is a device which Meralco uses to read these meters even at a distance; a kind of laser pointer thing. I sure hope such gizmos are true because if not it makes you wonder about your own electric bill if Meralco just guesses on meters they cannot read such as these.

2 comments:

  1. haha i've seen one higher than that.meralco claims they've trained their meter readers for that crap.i wonder what kind of training that is..hehe

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  2. higher??? well the 20 feet thing may be an underestimate. consider the bridge railing may be somewhere like 2-3 feet; the meters would then be somewhere in 30 feet. i don't see how training can help. you need a device thing for this, and i hope its real.

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