Patent ID: 7362232

Claim:
An arrangement for use in an electrical utility meter comprising: a metering unit operably coupled to utility power lines, the utility power lines connected to a load, the metering unit operable to generate metering information representative of an electrical quantity regarding electrical energy delivered to the load; a service disconnect circuit having a connected state, a disconnected state, and an armed state, said service disconnect circuit in the connected state operably coupling the utility power lines to the load, said service disconnect circuit in the disconnected state and in the armed state operably decoupling the utility power lines from the load; and a housing assembly disposed over at least a portion of the metering unit and the service disconnect circuit, the housing assembly having at least one electronic indicator visible from outside said housing assembly and operable to provide a visual signal representative of the service disconnect circuit in the armed state, the housing assembly further including an externally accessible actuator operably connected to the service disconnect circuit to change the service disconnect switch from the armed state to the connected state.