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7 THE SAVEOMETER DISPLAY
The Saveometer shows the cost per hour of the electricity you are using at any
particular time. Every 45 seconds the display will show, for 5 seconds each, your
electricity costs so far in the current week, and then the costs so far in the current
month,
followed (when a gas transmitter is fitted) by your gas costs in the current
month. Gas costs are always expressed using lower case alpha characters and the
gas icon is shown.
At the bottom of the display is normally a bar graph showing the
trend of your electricity
costs over the most recent 30 day period
. Initially a default 28 day bar graph is shown,
leaving 2 “blank days” on the right to differentiate between the default trend and your actual
readings as they occur each day. It will take a month before your own 30 day use pattern
becomes clear. A trend will start to show after only a few days, with the recent past day’s cost
trend always showing on the right hand side of the display. The bar chart below shows a 30
day example of a user’s (rather erratic!) electricity consumption
The battery low icons only appear when either the electricity transmitter batteries (icon
followed by T) or the display batteries (icon followed by D) need recharging. For the
transmitter simply swap the batteries from a fully charged Saveometer display with the
electricity transmitter batteries and then leave the display on the charger base over night. If
the gas transmitter batteries require replacing (every 12 years) the display will show “GAS
BATT” in the bar chart area.
When first connected the bar chart shows a
default 28 days. As your own new information
becomes available each day a new bar will
appear on the right hand side, leaving a 2 day
space between default and new data. It will
be 30 days before the bar chart shows only
your data. The bar chart resets whenever a
new date is manually set using function 1
Showing gas cost & icon