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In 2022, water meters in hous­es and apart­ments through­out Rus­sia have already become a habit. The main mer­it of this is the fed­er­al law, the main pro­vi­sion of which is: no meters, pay accord­ing to the stan­dards. And this is often much more than the aver­age house­hold expense. At the same time, the leg­isla­tive act forced con­sumers — that is, ordi­nary res­i­dents — to buy mea­sur­ing instru­ments, look for installers, trans­fer read­ings and car­ry out ver­i­fi­ca­tion. In our mate­r­i­al, we want to talk about the best water meters avail­able for sale in 2022.

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1. ECO NOM SV-15–110 ½

A sim­ple device that, in terms of its price-qual­i­ty ratio, is wor­thy of the first lines in the rank­ing of the best water meters. Made accord­ing to tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions (TU) — this is a mild vari­a­tion of the famil­iar GOST. It can be mount­ed both hor­i­zon­tal­ly and ver­ti­cal­ly. The main part of the body is made of brass. The met­al is resis­tant to mois­ture. The man­u­fac­tur­er claims that the device can with­stand the pres­sure in the water sup­ply sys­tem. It will also cope with super­heat­ed water, which is detri­men­tal to most appli­ances. The declared ser­vice life is up to 12 years. How­ev­er, for this he still needs to car­ry out ver­i­fi­ca­tion. There is anti-mag­net­ic pro­tec­tion. It works silent­ly and read­ings are easy to read. Suit­able for cold and hot water.

Main characteristics

View	vaned
Accu­ra­cy class	B
Instal­la­tion length	110 mm
Rat­ed flow	1.5 m³/hour
Oth­er	mechan­i­cal sin­gle jet, dry

Pros and cons

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2. ITELMA WFW20.D110 ¾

These are domes­tic water meters, which are assem­bled in Rus­sia using Ger­man tech­nol­o­gy from Euro­pean com­po­nents. At least that’s what the man­u­fac­tur­er says. The com­pa­ny gives a guar­an­tee of six years — com­peti­tors have a short­er peri­od. The device can with­stand water tem­per­a­tures up to 110 degrees Cel­sius. How­ev­er, this one nev­er runs through our pipes, but the safe­ty mar­gin of the device is sol­id. Hor­i­zon­tal and ver­ti­cal instal­la­tions are allowed. Resis­tant to high pres­sure in pipes up to 25 atmos­pheres. This is espe­cial­ly impor­tant dur­ing pres­sure test­ing, when pub­lic util­i­ties like to dri­ve high pres­sure through com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The declared ser­vice life is not less than 12 years. That is, in the case of hot water, for which it is intend­ed, it will with­stand at least two ver­i­fi­ca­tions.

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3. PULSE 15U-110 ¾

Water meter for an apart­ment from a Russ­ian com­pa­ny. Can also be used in pri­vate homes or offices. They allow you to trans­fer infor­ma­tion to an exter­nal device, in oth­er words — “Smart Home”, if you have one. There are mod­els with­out this bells and whis­tles. Stan­dard thread­ed con­nec­tion in half inch. Accord­ing to the instruc­tions, even hor­i­zon­tal or ver­ti­cal instal­la­tion is allowed. Equipped with high effi­cien­cy mag­net­ic shield­ing. Mech­a­nisms of the counter has no con­tact with water. An impeller comes into con­tact with mois­ture in the pipes, which rotates and trans­fers ener­gy to the gears of the dial. Comes with a valve to pre­vent back­flow of water. The body is made of brass. Note that this mod­el has an instal­la­tion length of 110 mm. Also avail­able in 80mm length. They are about the same price.

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4. Ecomera ECO-15U ½

Anoth­er device for apart­ments wor­thy of men­tion among the best water meters of 2021. Com­pact and con­cise. There is a mark of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by Ros­test. Accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, it is designed to work with extreme tem­per­a­tures. The mea­sur­ing cham­ber, like oth­er wor­thy water meters, is made of brass. There is an anti-mag­net­ic pro­tec­tion of the clutch, to which the impeller reports the num­ber of rev­o­lu­tions. The man­u­fac­tur­er boasts of a mea­sur­ing mech­a­nism that elim­i­nates dis­rup­tions at bor­der­line water flows. The declared ser­vice life is 12 years. The device is uni­ver­sal: it can be installed on any pipes. Unlike oth­er devices in our rat­ing, this one has an increased nom­i­nal flow rate — 2.5 cubic meters per hour against the stan­dard 1.5. This means that in a unit of time he can skip a much larg­er flow and not go astray.

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5. Decast VSKM-20

The meter is not cheap, and mod­els with the abil­i­ty to con­nect to dif­fer­ent inter­faces for remote trans­mis­sion of indi­ca­tors are even more expen­sive. In addi­tion, it has an increased instal­la­tion length of 13 cen­time­ters. Not every­one can build one into plumb­ing. But that’s where the vis­i­ble cons end. Before us is a uni­ver­sal meter for apart­ments and oth­er objects with a rel­a­tive­ly low water con­sump­tion. Sap­phire bear­ings are installed in the design, which reduce fric­tion, which means increase ser­vice life. The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion does not dif­fer from oth­er best water meters — a rotat­ing impeller. Man­u­fac­tur­ers boast of the high accu­ra­cy of the device. But the main thing for the buy­er is not to lie in a big way. The fac­to­ry gives a six-year war­ran­ty. This is the max­i­mum cal­i­bra­tion inter­val. The count­ing mech­a­nism rotates 360 degrees. That is, the screen can be rotat­ed any­where and see the read­ings.

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6. Betar SGV-15 ¾

In the arse­nal of the com­pa­ny there are spe­cial­ized devices for meter­ing only hot or only cold water. SGW — hot, SHW — cold. Inter­est­ing­ly, the man­u­fac­tur­er indi­cates that hot pipes can also be used on cold pipes. The cal­i­bra­tion inter­val is the clas­sic six years. There is dust and mois­ture pro­tec­tion that meets the IP54 stan­dard. Not the high­est degree, oth­er water meters have high­er. Although, on the oth­er hand, it is still com­mend­able that the com­pa­ny gen­er­al­ly clas­si­fied its device accord­ing to the inter­na­tion­al stan­dard. There is a ver­sion with remote trans­mis­sion, which is equipped with a pulse out­put to con­nect to the account­ing sys­tem. It is 200–300 rubles more expen­sive. Note that the device can record not only the flow rate, but also noti­fy of manip­u­la­tion attempts. The ambigu­ous use­ful­ness of the func­tion in every­day life. But if the leg­is­la­tion goes fur­ther towards greater elec­tron­ic con­trol over cit­i­zens’ coun­ters, which is quite real­is­tic, this device will already meet the inno­va­tion.

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7. VALTEC VLF-15U

This is a uni­ver­sal water meter: suit­able for cold and hot pipes. The declared tem­per­a­ture range is from 5 to 90 degrees Cel­sius. Sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics and oth­er best devices. The com­pa­ny is Ital­ian, but the pro­duc­tion of coun­ters is in Rus­sia. The Euro­pean approach to the device is vis­i­ble imme­di­ate­ly from the moment of unpack­ing. A film is applied to the pro­tec­tive glass — like on some new smart­phone. There is a red and blue stick­er to indi­cate which water the appli­ance is respon­si­ble for. There is even a wire for seal­ing, which not every­one puts. Lit­tle things, but they form the first impres­sion of the prod­uct. Although the declared cal­i­bra­tion inter­val is six years, but accord­ing to Russ­ian laws, when using it on a hot pipe, it is still nec­es­sary to car­ry out ver­i­fi­ca­tion every four years. Note that there is the same mod­el with a pulse out­put. It is denot­ed by the let­ter I. Sim­ply put, the meter has a wire with which you can orga­nize remote read­ings.

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8. Meter SVU-15 without KMCH ¾

You can also find these water meters in stores, des­ig­nat­ed as the NEVOD series. Suit­able for both cold and hot water. With­stand stan­dard pres­sure and tem­per­a­ture for a device of this class. Can be used in all res­i­den­tial areas. The SVU-15 mod­el can be sup­ple­ment­ed with the let­ters “I” or “M”. In the first case, there is a sen­sor for remote trans­mis­sion of low-fre­quen­cy puls­es. The sec­ond one has an M‑Bus mod­ule with autonomous pow­er sup­ply and mem­o­ry. Both devices are suit­able for Smart Home sys­tems. But the price of such is sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er than the usu­al counter. All are equipped with anti-mag­net­ic pro­tec­tion. Among the oth­er best water meters of 2021, these stand out for their com­pact­ness. Cal­i­bra­tion inter­val up to six years. The case is assem­bled in such a way as to avoid all kinds of leaks. The box con­tains the nec­es­sary mount­ing kit with check valve. Can with­stand tem­per­a­tures up to 100 degrees Cel­sius for a short time.

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9. Norm Measuring Systems SVKM-25X

A high-qual­i­ty water meter that is suit­able for any apart­ments and pri­vate hous­es with high resource con­sump­tion. Nom­i­nal flow 3.5 cubic meters per hour. This is a lot and it is unlike­ly that such an indi­ca­tor is jus­ti­fied in every­day use. The cou­pling is pro­tect­ed by an anti­mag­net­ic lay­er. The case is made of brass — it’s a clas­sic. How­ev­er, here the man­u­fac­tur­er addi­tion­al­ly cov­ered the counter with chrome. There are options with remote read­ings through the sen­sor. Please note that you can choose the trans­fer coef­fi­cient, which is also called the pulse price when order­ing the device. It all depends on your hard­ware. The indi­ca­tor will also be indi­cat­ed in the meter’s pass­port. Requires an exter­nal pow­er sup­ply. The kit includes all nec­es­sary mount­ing parts. Please note that the instal­la­tion length here is as much as 16 cen­time­ters. Before buy­ing, cal­cu­late whether your plumb­ing will pull such a gap.

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10. Minkor MK‑U 15

A large man­u­fac­tur­er of brass san­i­tary ware has only two counter mod­els in its arse­nal. They are made in St. Peters­burg at the plant togeth­er with oth­er com­pa­nies. Both are suit­able for mea­sur­ing the flow rate of both hot and cold water. The max­i­mum pres­sure that the device can with­stand is 10 bar. Not the high­est rate, but in 99% of cas­es he will make it. All char­ac­ter­is­tics indi­cate that this is a device for use in apart­ments. The instal­la­tion length is stan­dard 11 cen­time­ters, and if you take into account the half-gangs, then add anoth­er 8 cen­time­ters. The cal­i­bra­tion inter­val is six years. As we already wrote, there are two ver­sions of these water meters in stores. The for­mer have a check valve, which is need­ed to pre­vent water from run­ning in the oppo­site direc­tion, which means it pro­tects the mea­sur­ing device from water ham­mer. There is a vari­a­tion with­out it. It’s not par­tic­u­lar­ly cheap, so try to find the exact mod­el we’ve marked, with­out the let­ter L in the name.

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How to choose a water meter

We talked about the best water meters that you can buy freely in 2021. Read­ers of “Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da” will be advised on how to choose a water meter by the chief engi­neer of the man­age­ment com­pa­ny “Your Com­fort Man­age­ment and Oper­a­tion” Kir­ill Akzhig­i­tov.

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What to look for when buying

When buy­ing a water meter, you should pay atten­tion, first of all, to prod­uct cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and com­pa­ny recog­ni­tion. For the user, there is not much dif­fer­ence from a tech­ni­cal point of view.

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What are water meters

There are four types of coun­ters: tacho­me­t­ric, vor­tex, elec­tro­mag­net­ic, ultra­son­ic. In an apart­ment build­ing, it makes sense to install tacho­me­t­ric meters based on their cost, ease of design and instal­la­tion, as well as meter­ing accu­ra­cy.

This is use­ful to know

The pres­ence of a water heater will allow you not to depend on a cen­tral­ized sup­ply

Average price and good models

The aver­age cost of a water meter in retail is about 500 rubles. The most com­mon counter, in my opin­ion, is from Itel­ma.

Is it possible to install the measuring device yourself

It is pos­si­ble to install the meter on your own, how­ev­er, only spe­cial orga­ni­za­tions should seal and ver­i­fy.

What is the difference between hot and cold water meters

There are few dif­fer­ences between hot and cold water meters. First of all, they dif­fer in spe­cial des­ig­na­tions. As a rule, the counter for hot water is indi­cat­ed by a red mark, for cold — blue. Anoth­er no less sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence is the dif­fer­ence in the peri­od of their ver­i­fi­ca­tion. Meters for hot water sup­ply — once every four years, cold water — once every six years. This is due to the fact that hot water meters are exposed to much more sig­nif­i­cant dai­ly loads and must with­stand high tem­per­a­tures.

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Is it possible to fool a modern water meter

Most water meters can be fooled by so-called neodymi­um mag­nets. How­ev­er, if this fact is revealed, severe sanc­tions will be applied to such a con­sumer.

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