As Kenyans continue complaining of high electricity bills which could be caused by bypass issues, a TikToker by the name Jimmy Electrician1 showed his fellow citizens how they could spend less on prepaid electricity tokens by fixing bypass issues on token meters.
In a video demo, the TikToker held a Hexing CIU EV500 meter which has the word ‘bypass’ displaying on the meter screen and a red alarm light on, and explained how the user could fix it; and eventually pay less for electricity in the long run.
“Hello guys, I hope you are well. I have come here to remove the bypass. This means that this tenant is paying higher bills because his tokens deplete very fast. It is because of this kind of name (bypass) or the wiring has a problem. I looked at his breaker box in the house and found no problem with his wiring so I’d like us to go upstairs and see where the problem is then we’ll come back downstairs and you will see that the bypass is gone,” began Jimmy.
In the other breaker box, he found the bypass problem. A breaker box frame bolt had pierced one of the wires (black in color) and made the metal in the breaker box and the black wire come into contact.
“So you find that this bolt had connected the neutral bar and the earth, hence causing the bypass. If you separate them, the bypass ends,” he explained.
