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It is easy to forget to top up your prepaid meter, especially when you are busy. Apart from insufficient credit on your card, however, there are other reasons your prepaid electricity meter may not work. Though most South Africans prefer using prepaid meters in their homes to postpaid meters, both have their advantages and disadvantages.<\/p>\n

One of the challenges most inexperienced prepaid electricity meters users face is dealing with meter errors, including error 30 and understanding how the meter functions. This article covers how to resolve error codes on prepaid meters and other lesser-known facts.<\/p>\n

What Is Prepaid Electricity Meter?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A prepaid electricity meter is a type of meter that requires a consumer to pay first for energy before using it. With this meter plan, the consumer would be delivered the exact kilowatts of energy he pays for.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A typical prepaid meter comes with a prepaid card that collates an optimum reading of the consumer’s payment to the energy utility. The prepaid electricity meter, also known as the pay-as-you-go meter, is usually installed in a house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consumers top up their meter with credit bought online or shop. With this meter plan, you also know you will run out of energy, and you are totally in charge of your energy. Above all, you don’t overpay when using the pay-as-you-go meter, and it reduces fraud and theft.<\/p>\n

Types Of Available Prepaid Electricity Meter In South Africa<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are different prepaid meters out there for consumers to buy. However, after a thorough search, we couldn’t find an official list of all the available prepaid meters being issued by Eskom. Eskom recently introduced the smart prepaid meter, an advanced digital electricity meter that documents when and how much electricity is consumed and deducts from the amount consumed from a prepaid balance loaded by the customer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, several metering companies in the country offer meter services, including selling different types of prepaid meters. Some of the prepaid you can find around include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n