Crazy Dave
Retired Genius now nursing dementia.
The reason I gave for refusing a smart meter is the fact that I sit very close the the meter location and I don't want to be sitting in a bath of cellular radiation. They haven't bothered me since.
Where is the emoticon for 'bashing my head against a brick wall'. You still haven't bothered to read through the thread properly. Never heard of people making mistakes? Hitting the wrong button? Fat finger syndrome? If not then where have you been?'If you don't come to an agreement with your supplier to pay off your debt, they can apply to a court for a warrant to enter your home to disconnect your supply. Your supplier must send a notice telling you they're applying to the court. ' - Citizens Advive
Thems the rules. Now, the energy suppliers can switch off supply whether it's a smart, or ordinary meter, so your comment is without any merit.
Yes I was. I beg your pardon. Brain not engaged.Thanks but I think you may be talking about selling your solar generated electricity back to the grid rather than Electric Vehicle Tariffs?
https://energydots.com/?gad_source=...M2ODpgYoCNxb0ZS879MeI2Ue-78tsZuMaAqcDEALw_wcBThe reason I gave for refusing a smart meter is the fact that I sit very close the the meter location and I don't want to be sitting in a bath of cellular radiation. They haven't bothered me since.
Well there's a surprise!
Well I don't understand why. At the time I was involved with metering, disc meters were seen as obsolescent with solid state devices being introduced. Initially they were used for complicated commercial and industrial tariffs that were difficult to meter with conventional types. Domestic supplies continued mainly with disc types as they were cheaper to make than solid state, all had reverse running stops, there being no domestic tariffs at the time for export, needing reverse metering. Towards the end of my time in that department the first solid state domestic meters were being introduced and no more mechanical meters were being purchased. Shortly after, SWEB closed both of its meter test stations as they no longer repaired and tested conventional meters. Solid state domestic meters were bought in already certified and were considered disposable after their certification period. I'm pretty sure the rest of the industry followed suit. Or, more likely, SWEB caught up with the rest; they weren't always the most go ahead of the electricity boards.My friend has a reverse running one, her house was built six or seven years ago.
Looks like you have suitable headgear not to worry about cellular radiation.The reason I gave for refusing a smart meter is the fact that I sit very close the the meter location and I don't want to be sitting in a bath of cellular radiation. They haven't bothered me since.
The pennies on top was a wide spread ruse. My grandfathers had a stack on his. Urban myths are not a new thingForty years or so ago, I was part owner of a shop in Paddington that sold mainly transformers, along with some other electronic surplus. There was one particular surplus transformer that customers kept asking for, and one of them let slip that it could be used in some way to either retard or reverse the electricity meters of the day. I've no idea if it worked or was just a myth, but we were subsequently a bit reluctant to sell that particular transformer without enquiring, politely, about its intended use.
I also once worked with a guy who reckoned that he slowed down his meter by storing a giant pile of pennies on top of it. Once again, I have no idea if this worked either.
To your knowledge, did it work? Just curious, honest guv!The pennies on top was a wide spread ruse. My grandfathers had a stack on his. Urban myths are not a new thing
I have a degree in electrical and electronic engineering and have no expectations of it working. There are placebo effects in everything involving human activity.To your knowledge, did it work? Just curious, honest guv!
Actually we have a smart meter anyway. We find it handy(Solar and EV). Also haven't used cash much since COVID.
They were all breathing oxygen too…. It is a common trait to correlate coincidence with causation if it fits your narrative.I watched a very interesting TV programme many years ago about a disproportionately high level of childhood Leukaemia on a housing estate. The area was checked for every conceivable contaminant but nothing untoward was found. Someone then noticed the incoming electricity supply was directly outside the bedrooms in which the affected children slept. It was posited by some, that having their heads so close to the supply for 8 hours a night as they slept was the likely cause of the Leukaemia. It was too much of a coincidence to be dismissed. As I recall though, and it was many years ago, the energy supplier, house builders and some others concluded that this was unlikely.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-018-0097-7#:~:text=Results,CI: 0.92–1.93).I watched a very interesting TV programme many years ago about a disproportionately high level of childhood Leukaemia on a housing estate. The area was checked for every conceivable contaminant but nothing untoward was found. Someone then noticed the incoming electricity supply was directly outside the bedrooms in which the affected children slept. It was posited by some, that having their heads so close to the supply for 8 hours a night as they slept was the likely cause of the Leukaemia. It was too much of a coincidence to be dismissed. As I recall though, and it was many years ago, the energy supplier, house builders and some others concluded that this was unlikely.
Getting off topic a bit now, but I did some "research", the sort that begins with "Goo", a few years back when a mobile phone operator offered to install floodlights at the tennis club on whose committee I served at the time. Their benefit was to be installing a phone mast atop one of the light poles. The club was next to a primary school, and the letters we received from concerned parents were as scientifically uninformed as they were vitriolic. You'd have thought we'd suggested vivisection of their children. In vain we tried to reassure them, and point out that in areas of weak signal, mobile phones ramp up their output power, and that the radiation from a phone held next to your ear was vastly higher than that from a mast 20m away... It was a non starter.I'd like to think www.gov.uk can be trusted, or at least as much as any online source can be, if it is then here's a bunch of links regarding EMF's, Radio Waves etc
Electromagnetic fields
The Tin Foil Hat brigade will obviously scream blue murder at this, but hey-ho
Shut down the cannabis farm in the basement.Any other ways of slowing down meters? (Asking for a friend.)
That's exactly so.'If you don't come to an agreement with your supplier to pay off your debt, they can apply to a court for a warrant to enter your home to disconnect your supply. Your supplier must send a notice telling you they're applying to the court. ' - Citizens Advice
Thems the rules. Now, the energy suppliers can switch off supply whether it's a smart, or ordinary meter, so your comment is without any merit.
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