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No idea. It was only fitted yesterday.
brightspark
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thats odd mains cutout phases a.rse way round normaly red on left then yellow and blue on the right then the nutral
As long as the power comes down the right wires I don't mind!
Tell them to stick the thing where the sun don't shine (it's only there for their benefit really, not yours).
Get a cheap clampmeter and you'll probably have more luck tracing where your current is going (at least onto which circuits from the Dis Board breakers which narrows the field down).
(I've been ignoring E-on's relentless shoving of Smart Meter install via email and text message for years now. AFAIAC their main purpose is to facilitate the rollout of tiered tariffs to extract more money, and to enable remote disconnect of your supply. Always look for the ulterior motive when any Co or Govt wants to give you "free stuff"
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Get a cheap clampmeter and you'll probably have more luck tracing where your current is going (at least onto which circuits from the Dis Board breakers which narrows the field down).
(I've been ignoring E-on's relentless shoving of Smart Meter install via email and text message for years now. AFAIAC their main purpose is to facilitate the rollout of tiered tariffs to extract more money, and to enable remote disconnect of your supply. Always look for the ulterior motive when any Co or Govt wants to give you "free stuff"
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Maybe it's electrical interference 
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I've managed to avoid them so far...but my supplier is getting persistent now
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.I've managed to avoid them so far...but my supplier is getting persistent now
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It doesn't matter if it works, they can still tick the box to say they've fitted another smart meter to move another fraction of a percentage towards the gov't's target.
Smart meters give more choice of tarriff, but don't force you. I've seen scaremongering about forcing time of use charging with penalties for use at peak times. There's no sign of that actually happening, but if it ever did then then it's most likely that those without smart meters would just be charged the high rate for everything.
I agree it's stupid to have targets for smart meter installations with no incentive to get them actually working.
I agree it's stupid to have targets for smart meter installations with no incentive to get them actually working.
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Ive two that dont communicate…..restricts the tariffs you can choose, I told them they wouldn't work, but if I wanted supplies had to have them.
Not sure I understand.
I wish I'd stuck to my guns and not bothered tbh.
Adoption isn't high enough yet to push peak rate/time tariff bands (or indeed to bring peak load tariffs as many businesses have, where the business pays a rate based upon the highest recorded usage in any 30-min period for every unit used that month).
To roll out such measures when there aren't enough fish in the net would be to shoot themselves in the foot. Smart meters have got a relentless propaganda campaign on TV etc "selling" the (actually pretty useless) "benefit" of being able to monitor consumption rate - pushing like mad to get the adoption rate high.
Just wait till that day comes - you do not have to be Nostradamus to see where its going!
Add in the push for your home heating, cooking, transport everything to he electricity dependent - and you are utterly at the mercy/control of the power companies and the Govt.
They are installing Power Co supported Air Source Heat pump systems on Grants willy-nilly - in houses that are old and wholly unsuitable in out chilly climes. There's one going in on a 150yo stone old farmhouse near me right now - and I reckon the owner will have an aneurism when he gets his winter electric bill as the thing works overtime trying to heat the place. Again, once adoption is high enough & the tech firmly established - the squeeze on alternatives (Woodburn, coal, oil, gas etc) to outlaw anything but "approved" systems will come.
You have to ask why Power Co's would be funding something that purports to reduce energy consumption & reduce their profits... & of course the answer is that long-term such systems will profit them handsomely in perpetuity.
"Beware of strangers bearing gifts" (or Govt even more so). As our USA folk would say "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
There are already instances where people have had their electric supply turned off remotely via a SM - the power co has total control via the SM. So even vulnerable people can be cut off by an automated system for (say) non-payment during to a Banking glitch or other.
We are being herded. Slowly but surely so people don't catch on & get spooked - but herded nonetheless.
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A sounds pretty sensible. New technology allows companies to charge more for services when it actually costs them more and on the flip side allows them to increase demand, by making the price much cheaper, to help balance the intermittent loads produced by cheaper, but variable lower carbon alternatives.
We get lower carbon electric and, if we can modify our use to suit, cheaper electric. As well as, potentially postponing/minimising expensive and unpopular grid infrastructure upgrades. Winner.
The conspiracy theory element falls apart when you remember that competing companies sell us kWh. Unless you're implying there is some kind of overarching grand plan and all the electric companies and gas companies and kerosene companies are "in on it" too. And start ups that can and do start up - they'd have to be "in on it" before being allowed to start up. As well as national grid and the regional parts of that.
Then think about what nefarious control over energy supply would get you. A cold, poor, angry electorate. Just what all baddies want eh?
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It seems to be what is being striven for.
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