robert, No, actually often digital stuff is harder to read than some older analog equipment, but that's a long story.
If you had an analog meter movement of the moving needle type, it'd be a breeze to read except for the legal and code problems of installing any adaptations in your power companies equipment. what these are is a set of moving wheels that indicate digits of the total kilowat hours used. As you draw current from the mains, this current flow makes what amounts to a small motor spin. this spins wheels or disks which have numbers on them, in a geared chain, one for each digit of watt hours. I don't know how many digits they have. so there's nothing electrical to get at which reflects the total number displayed, just the printed numbers on little disks. About the only way it might be done is to look at it with a camera and have a computer analyze the results. We've been working with computer vision folks here on computerized vision systems trying to read displays for years and it ain't done to usable standards yet. Turns out it's hard to get computers to read anything "real world" No, it's not like OCR on print books, finding the numbers in the mess of visual junk is very difficult indeed. tom Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
