Often, our citizens face a dilemma, where are the old electric meter after installing the new one? Not everyone knows that to throw out the instruments of accounting together with household waste is prohibited, as they contain heavy metals that can cause damage to ecology.

In this review, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the options for disposal of electric meters and you can choose the most suitable for yourself.

In any residential room there is a measuring device calculating electricity consumption. Like any high-precision equipment, electric meters should periodically pass verification. On it, with the help of standards, the error of the testimony issued by the counter is detected. If they go beyond the framework of the standard, the device is subject to disposal.

Reference! Induction electric stakes and instruments with a class above 2.0 are not accepted for verification, and to be replaced, since their accuracy class is very low. In modern devices, it varies in the range from 0.5 to 2.0.

Replace the old accounting devices (PU) on new necessary in the following cases:

1. expired service life of the old sample counter;
2. the device broke or has improper configuration;
3. planned works on power grids involving replacement PU.

The owners of the apartment arises the question of what to do when replacing the electric meter and where is the old one? Installation work is carried out by electricians of the energy-sales company, for example, Mosenergosbyt. This is due to the fact that the counters are sealing and shooting or installing a seal has the right only a specialized company. The electrician removes the testimony from the old instrument of accounting and then sets a new power meter.

At the same time, the old PU remains at the owner of the apartment. Experts recommend to keep it about 2-3 months, in case, with an accounting department of an energy-sales company, there will be discrepancies in transmitted readings. After that, the electric meter must be disposed of.

Is it possible to do something with an old electric meter?

Most citizens of Russia are either stored in garages broken and dismantled electric stakes, or throw them with household waste to the nearest trash. Both options are not loyal.

Store the failed measuring instruments there is no point. They will only dust and take a place. But it is also impossible to throw them on the trash. The fact is that there are heavy metals in the power stakes: mercury, lead and chrome. Outdoors and under the influence of changes in the environment (humidity, temperature differences, etc.), the device is rapidly deformed, and the metals contained in it actively enter into connection with the compounds of chlorine and hydrocarbons contained in the plastic case of the meter. The whole process leads to the formation of high-tech substances that can cause irreparable damage to the environment and man in particular.

Therefore, it is best to pass the old electric meter or dispose of it, as indicated in the instrument passport.

Some citizens do not agree to quickly part with the dismantled PU and find a different application for them. For example, some craftsmen use the old one, but at the same time the operating power meter is as a measuring device. That is, on the one hand, the socket is installed, and on the other - the plug. Connect the device and consider its power consumption. And some craftsmen are made from old counters: piggy banks, lights or disassemble the device on the parts and make a magnet (induction PU).

Where to pass the old electric meter?

Each measuring equipment, which includes and power plants, there is a vehicle. In it, the manufacturer necessarily indicates the disposal procedure. In addition, you can learn what companies your city take old devices and under what conditions.

Dispose of electric stakes

Due to the fact that the disposal of electric meters in improperly can bring significant harm to the environment, only specialized companies should be recycling. Such organizations necessarily have equipment for carrying out safe disposal and permission from government agencies.

The process of recycling the power meters is based on the separation of the composite components of the device: capacitors, LEDs and transmitting contacts. Considering the fact that there is a highly toxic substance in the power steplets - metal mercury, companies necessarily conduct a demurcurination procedure, that is, the removal of its physico-chemical method. Therefore, it is not necessary to negotiate the process of disposal of electric meters.

Sell \u200b\u200bor throw out

As mentioned above, it is prohibited to throw away the counters in the landfill. Therefore, it logically arises the question of what to do with an unnecessary device? It turns out that it is possible to get a small benefit from disposal. If you throw out the device, you do not get anything from it. But in the case when you pass it on the disposal program to specialized companies, you can get for this small money. The fact is that in electrical stations contained metals that are removed in the laboratory and using special equipment.

It remains to be resolved where to pass the old electric meter for money? To do this, you can contact your energy sales company. Often they have a special permit for recycling and can take old Pu. As well as the services are engaged in metrological companies, that is, those who carry out the calibration of the electric meters.

From the foregoing, it can be concluded that a faulty and dismantled electric meter can bring a small financial benefit if it is not easy to throw it out, but to dispose of all the rules.

Old induction household electric meters. Counters are no longer needed - they no longer provide accuracy of accounting and are replaced by electronic. Their fate is a garbage or shelf in the garage, "just in case." We will try to give the second life of the worker.
I suggest to make a portable lamp in a robust and light case.

Necessary materials and tools

For work, we will need the following tool: screwdriver, pliers, a bull or drill with a drill of 4 - 4.5 mm. From materials: a piece of plywood or boards, a cover from a canning can, a car lamp from the headlight with a connector, a wire with a fork, switch, bolts and wrenches.

Detailed job description

For this, the counter is disassembled - we take out the countable mechanism. Glass, terminals and upper bracket can not be removed yet.
Inten by mounting the nest from the automotive old car headlight. I drilled a plastic socket with a recess between the contacts. A thin brass strap is taken as the bracket with two holes from the invoices of the counter, but you can use a similar piece from the children's metal designer. Specific place of drilling holes in the meter housing will choose themselves after the simplifier, the housing may differ.

As a reflector, a brilliant tin lid from the bank of condensed milk, "triggered" in the middle, was perfect. Fasteners (bolts and wrenches) in excess is in the meter itself.

Outside to the housing, screw the handle, drank from a piece of plywood or thin board. It is securing the power cord to it, and if necessary, I mount the power switch - toggle switch, the button. On the upper bracket, if necessary, make a hook, curved from a piece of wire.

Automotive incandescent lamps for headlights usually have 2 spirals. It will allow us to quickly connect the second spiral when burning first or use the bulbs with one disturb.

There are such autolimples for many experienced motorists in stocks - today the incandescent lamps are "not deed" and have long been displaced more modern.

Connect from the lamp holder to connect to the counter terminals or connect a twist with a feed wire. In the second case, it is possible to get rid of the terminals by passing the wiring into the remaining holes.

Power can provide a small-sized electronic transformer, a regular "iron" transformer by 12 volts, a garage charger or a borot car. Depending on this, the feed cord is equipped with an appropriate fork.

The resulting lamp has its own advantages:

• light and durable building of almost "anti-vandal" performance
• good protection light bulb from damage
• fast reserve spiral connection
• using half burned lamps
• has a knob not heated when working
• produces not blinding compact rectangular light stream

And disadvantages:

• case not for the most narrow jobs

If you attach such a lamp instead of a conventional reflector to a table lamp with a flexible tube - be sure that such a table lamp will not interfere with others when you dance late for reading your favorite book. To give a more aesthetic view from the housing, you can cut the fastener "ears" and part of the terminal box, and the body itself to reorganize in any way.