The idea that we've all got to have them, and to heat rather than cool, is.
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OT Forced new smart meters
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If you have different suppliers the electricity one won't know whether you have gas or not.
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dennis@home has brought this to us :
I have several, but that's me..
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But they will know you only have electricity from them, and refuse you a smart meter on that basis.
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RJH pretended :
I think they have the option to install a remote mobile antenna.
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RJH was thinking very hard :
Yes, they still need a mobile signal..
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Max Demian formulated the question :
I understand the gas meter talks to the electric meter, using a battery designed to last 10 years. Electric meter has power, the electric meter then phones home once per day, with perhaps an every 30 minutes series of reading and also reports to the indoor display unit. Hence the gas meter update to the indoor display are much less frequent than the electric consumption updates.
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on 20/06/2019, Max Demian supposed :
The meters are installed by the DNO, not the company you pay for your fuels. The instant gas consumption can be read on the meters display, or the indoor display and when it works fully, on your suppliers website.
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AIUI that changed with SMETS2 as they can each fit a smart meter and the gas one will work with the electric.
What I think you still can't have is a smart gas meter with no smart electricity meter to forward the data.
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Dan S. MacAbre wrote on 20/06/2019 :
That delay, might be due to the delayed roll-out of SMETS2, they will not want to install SMETS1.
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Max Demian formulated the question :
They don't force you to have the either whiny kids or the polar bears :-)
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I still have one, made by English Electric. Wikipedia suggests this means it is from before September 1968.
"Tested 8/88" on the sticker. "Property of Midlands Electricity Board"
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Chris Bartram formulated on Thursday :
Yes, but the SM's provide much better feedback and near instant, so you are empowered to know what consumes.
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Read thread before replying.
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the specs don't cover reactive current. No-one's claiming they're off on real power.
not really
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I can't really help if you miss the whole point of the report.
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10 years is of course inadequate battery life
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you've had the link enough times here.
proposed, no. However it's been done to some extent. Read the linked article.
Yes, the meters. Read the article.
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What would suggest that has a longer life? After all it's not just doing nothing.
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The test load was normal and common.
I won't ask what sort of equipment you run that consumes weird waveforms. Regardless the meter should register correctly to within 2%. A 500% error is a bit of a concern to many of us, even if not to you.
they are wholly immaterial
Another one that didn't read the article. How useful.
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