Electricity meters, as a commodity in our lives, have always played a very important role. Since it is a commodity, there must be something priced. The birth of electricity meters is officially to calculate how much electricity people use more accurately, so that the staff of the grid to calculate the electricity bill.
However, there are also many people who have paid attention to stealing electricity, dismantling and replacing the wires in the meter without permission, and stealing other people's electricity for their own use. So in order to prevent this from happening, the lead seal of the electricity meter appeared.
Electricity meter lead seal, also known as meter lock. The main function is to prevent the occurrence of electricity theft, with the increase in the use of electricity meters, the lead seal of the meter not only has the role of security and theft, but also serves as a certificate. The meter is inspected and qualified when leaving the factory, and sealed with a lead seal, indicating that it can be installed and used. Each lead seal has a specific code, just like the warranty paper.
The lead seal of the electricity meter cannot be opened privately, as long as the lead seal of the meter is opened privately, it will be treated as stealing electricity. According to the Electricity Law of the People's Republic of China, those who steal electric energy are fined up to 5 times the electricity bill; If the time of electricity theft cannot be ascertained, the residential user shall pay the electricity fee for 6 hours a day according to the capacity of the electric energy meter, for a total of 6 months.
Each meter will have a lead seal on the meter, which is sealed by the local power company and is the asset of the power company. According to the "Regulations on the Supply and Use of Power": forging or opening the statutory or authorized metering and testing agency sealed electricity metering device to seal electricity, is an act of stealing electricity, so it is said that the meter lead seal can not be opened casually.
