Smart meters yet again - EON

No it isn't and hasn't been since 2012.

The French state owned EDF still owns generating plants and other UK stuff but SEEBoard (as was) is now Chinese owned and actually called UK power networks. It was sold to raise money to pay for Hinkley C.

Quite why they are still using the EDF brand on all the bills and vehicles is a mystery.

Gaming, mainly. And streaming. Not to mention a number of servers.

Some are Xboxes. Many are HP microservers, which are pretty efficient. The rest (six of them) were built by me, and they *all* had 80+ Gold PSUs from the beginning.

That's probably only the gas meter as it would flatten the battery. The displays certainly do it far more frequently and display the meter totals just as frequently but the gas doesn't change for 30 minutes.

Why would you want it that infrequently?

Yes if drought restrictions are in force.

While you're there, do a search for "computer problems" or "car problems" or "wife problems", plenty of people seem to manage OK with one or more of them too ...

No but industry already shed load as it approaches the next tariff point to avoid extra bills. How they do this is dependent on the use.

rubbish.

There are no SMETS 2 meters being installed yet. No one should be allowing a SMETS 1 meter to be installed.

Because it is very little use. I don't NEED a meter reading as all that telles me is how much I've used s ince the meter was installed, what I want to kn ow is HOW MUCH POWER I'm cu rrently using that is what I want and I achived that at a rate of about 2-3 times a second, I don;t need iot any more reguallery than that.

No they don't they put restrictions on hose pipes they dontl say I can;t wash the dog or take a bath, I don;t even think even an advanced smart water meter can tell that I'm bathing a dog or myself or watering houseplants.

, don;t forget they only really need one a month if yuo're paying monthly s urely, if you're paying one a 1/4 why do they need readings taken every 30 mins.

ry 3 months ?

f the power at say 4pm when the cost goes up, I doubt that will ever happe n as they want electricity usage planned so they can make better use of the powerplants so they don't have to keep using backup power at short notice which IS more expensive.

l shut up and send everyone home at 4pm ?

So nothing will change, E7 the cheatest electricity runs at night how many factories have closed during the day to run at night to make use of cheap e lectricity ?

You do know why electricity is cheaper at night don't you ?

If the red led is visibly flashing then something is using a lot of power.

There was another item about this on todays Rip-Off_Britain where the ladies pointed out that most of the smart meters installed to date are SMETS1 (The BBC are learning !!) and become dumb if you switch supplier.

For a typical (1000 pulses per kWh) meter, 3 flashes a second is well into electric shower territory ...

ed since the meter was installed, what I want to kn ow is HOW MUCH POWER I' m currently using that is what I want and I achived that at a rate of about 2-3 times a second, I don;t need iot any more reguallery than that.

It's always visibly flashing on the meter, but it depends how long you watc h it for and it;s not a good indication of a fault.

I';m referiong to my energy meter which sits above my fire place, and indic cates the number of whats consumed at that moment in time on a LCD display. (NOT THE METER READING). I'd estimet that presently it's about 160W. Tonight after dark it will be a bout 400W once the TV tivo, lights, etc are all put on. When I switch my kettle on it goes up by about 2.9KW same with my immersion heater, I can pretty much tell what is on or off. I don't see why the electrically supply company needs to know this every 30 mins.

As an unqualified statement that is just plain wrong. We have switched between 4 times between 3 different suppliers with the same smart meters working as such for both gas and electricity. We are not alone. So if anyone is dumb it is (still) the BBC.