Upgrade your Yaka meter before it stops working. Here’s how

Starting from November 24, 2024, any Yaka! energy meters that haven’t been upgraded will cease working. According to UMEME, these meters will now not settle for new Yaka! tokens. To keep away from this inconvenience, you your yaka meter should endure the key-change improve, earlier than the Token Identifier (TID) Rollover on 24 November 2024.

How to improve your Yaka meter

When you obtain a set of three tokens, every token with 20 digits on this format: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx, yyyy yyyy yyyy yyyy yyyy, zzzz zzzz zzzz zzzz zzzz. (e.g Token 1; Token 2 ; Token 3.). Press the tokens within the order they’re displayed (separated by a semi-colon). Start with the xxxx, after profitable loading, observe with the yyyy, after profitable loading, then lastly enter the zzzz tokens.

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How to verify if my meter is upgraded

There are numerous meter manufacturers and mannequin that UMEME helps. They embrace Conlog, then the newer Hexing and Chint and Inhemeter meters.

• For a Conlog meter: Press #005#, r1:t2 means not upgraded, r2:t2 or r2:t10 means upgraded.
• For Hexing and Chint meters: Press 873 and press “Enter.” 01 means not upgraded, 02 means upgraded.
• For Inhemeter meter: Press 873 and press “Enter.” If the meter shows 01-02, it means it’s not upgraded, and 02-02 means the meter is already upgraded.

The Yaka meter improve course of raises a number of sensible considerations, however most are easy. All newly put in meters will already come upgraded, and any credit score in your meter will stay unaffected after the improve.

Now if energy goes out mid-upgrade, merely await restoration to proceed the method. Meters in another person’s title can nonetheless be upgraded efficiently, although title modifications require visiting a service heart. For prospects unavailable earlier than the deadline, Umeme groups will improve meters instantly from the poles.

Also be aware that guide upgrades are most popular to reduce dangers of communication failures based on UMEME, and improve tokens don’t expire, although well timed use is suggested to stop misplacement or token rejection. This ensures a clean and efficient transition for all prospects.