Smart meters, pulling fuses, what’s the latest?

[multimick]

fitted a new cu last week ,smart meter ,just pulled fuse (no seal ) and cracked on ,no problem till 2 days later got a speeding ticket, now that is smart

 

[mhar]

Correct, and they can tell if there is an DNO outage, if not supply has been de energized unauthorized.

I asked this question the other day just before the fuses on a 3 phase supply with a brand new half hour reporting meter all fell out. My youngest is responsible for many power outages being a dno sap (he authorises work on the network) and he said he does nothing different since the introduction of smart meters. He communicates with their control centre in Wales and nothing more. DNO procedures have not changed

 

[Octopus]

I agree, lets be sensible about this,

Yup ........... the muppets who came up with multiple types of smart meters also failed to include isolation switches as part of the solution ............. so no sense from the suppliers IMHO

 

[telectrix]

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Yup ........... the muppets who came up with multiple types of smart meters also failed to include isolation switches as part of the solution ............. so no sense from the suppliers IMHO

gree. all smart meters should be of the type that has a flick switch on the output so that safe working practice is simple without having to cut seals. it's not rocket science, is it?

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I changed a C.U yesterday, Pulled the fuse and carried on, no casualty beeps or smart meter calling out in distress.

 

[Strima]

At a guess a lot of the smart meters that have already been installed will be ripped out and replaced with a newer version soon so all suppliers can use them.

It will again be another missed opportunity to fit an isolator for us to use...

 

[7029 dave]

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gree. all smart meters should be of the type that has a flick switch on the output so that safe working practice is simple without having to cut seals. it's not rocket science, is it?

Yep, I have had this discussion many times with the big wigs on our company, deaf ears init.

 

[Spiderrico]

Really ..... I find that tricky to believe ...

I work for Scottish Power as a subby and I pull fuses on smart meters daily and I haven't heard of any locking out or any tamper devices from them. The work is planned and also faults, and they are pretty thorough in dishing out literature on the network.

 

[Percyprod]

As an ex dno employee, I would doubt that there would ge much of a problem. If the meter registered an unauthorised disconnection, as some one else has said, how would it discriminate between the main fuse geing pulled and a supply disconnection. Even if the meter somehow could be set to do this, most mains outages or power cuts would affect a whole area, not just one property.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

Yup ........... the muppets who came up with multiple types of smart meters also failed to include isolation switches as part of the solution ............. so no sense from the suppliers IMHO

I have had 3 smart meters as i switch every year for the best deal. the first barely got a signal and i had to manually give them readings still, the second meter was eon, i switched to npower so it stopped working and resorted to a dumb status, start of last year i switched back to eon due to the discounts and promo's. the meter that was once an eon meter could no longer be read by them having somehow lost its smart features!?? they could manually call it to get a reading but it would no longer auto send data. so they came out and fitted a new smart meter. I recently switched to edf who then proceeded to fit another smart meter! none had an isolation switch you could operate!