Yawn, another meter question

[Harry Bloomfield]

Max Demian has brought this to us :

You can get plug in logging meters for that, to monitor instantaneous, hourly, daily and weekly.

[critcher]

then when they see their profits dip, they put the price up, and so it goes on and on and on.

[charles]

going on a bus - with an elderly persons' card - from one of the route to the other - and again ....

[ss]

Both, but I have converted to LED and the heating goes off half hour earlier, no standbys overnight etc etc.

[ARW]

Could you not just have a look at the immersion heater switch:-)?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Must be me, but how would any meter persuade me to switch off lights etc I didn't need? Unless of course you make a habit of leaving things on when not needed. And can't for the life of me see how a fancy meter would change that.

[Bob Eager]

What's the new money, then?

[Jethro_uk]

I think the whole "smart meter" crap was busted when someone asked if they save electricity, why not use them for water, and save water. The only reason that makes sense is if they don't save electricity.....

[Jethro_uk]

Bit like the M6 toll then. Buried in the legislation which enabled it, is the power for the operator to adjust pricing to ensure profit. One of the reasons why HGVs are most assuredly not welcome (and therefore priced off).

Quite amusing, in a depressing way, to hear Brummies whinging that lorries should go on the toll to ease congestion on the regular M6. If they'd bothered to educate themselves, they'd know the truth.

[Jethro_uk]

Except meter readers also fulfil a lesser known role of superficial safety inspectors.

You can imagine what mischief the Great British Public would get up to if they knew no one would ever check their meters again ....

[alan_m]

When the new referendum takes place and we beg to stay in the EU we will all be using Euros.

[Cursitor Doom]

Oh yeah, like everyone's going to be stupid enough to fall for the way that May and that French tosser have endeavoured to make it all appear like the divorce is *way* too complex to bring to a successful conclusion! :-D

[harry]

They won't switch it off. They will (treble?) the price of electricity it there is a shortfall in supply.

The YOU will turn it off. Or your computer will.

[harry]

Modern meters have a flashing LED. Flashes once per watthour.

[Max Demian]

Of course: but we're talking about so-called smart meters.

[The Natural Philosopher]

hahaha

ROFL!

You mean when we set up the NEW EU and germany begs to join it, but we won't have a common currency...

[Dave Liquorice]

Mines pretty good once I got the tails passing through the clip well placed.

I capture the XML data stream mine produces and log it. Then have a bit of PHP that'll plot a graph of consumption for a given day. I look at that maybe a few times a week and normally catch her indoors leaving the iron on or can see when she has...

[Dave Liquorice]

How long do you think an appliance thus controlled would stay connected to the controlled supply. Or if the "remote switch" is in the appliance that a bit of wire from its input to ouput magically appears?

[bert]

Would probably be more effective with water especially in times of shortage.

[bert]

And you call this progress?