Technical information
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The test drum 90-day use-by 
period has expired. If the correct 
time and date were set on the 
meter and the drum door has 
not been opened since the 
installation of the test drum, 
discard the old test drum and 
insert a new test drum.
The drum door was opened 
and closed with a partly used 
test drum inside or a partly 
used test drum was inserted.
If there was a partly used 
test drum in the meter and it 
took longer than two minutes 
to replace the batteries, the 
year, date, and time have 
to be reset. When the year, 
date, and time are reset, the 
meter does not know how 
long the partly used test 
drum has been in the meter.
You should run a control test 
to verify that the test drum 
is useable. See Chapter 2, 
“Why Run Control Tests?”










