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![Post Post](templates/standard/images/icon_minipost.gif) Posted: 18:56 - 08 Nov 2022 Post subject: |
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Mine worked for about a year and then stopped working, then supplier was bought by another ... it makes fuck all difference as far as I'm concerned whether you have one or not ... doesn't save you any money!!
I just let them come and read the meters now ... I'm not doing it, that's why the smart meters (an oxymoron if there ever was one) were fitted!!
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The main fuse cupboard in my house is in a mobile phone dead-spot anyway. Even my roaming phone is very intermittant in getting any sort of signal in that part of the room so I think a smart meter would be totally redundant.
Fact is I'm not going to use my valuable time off to wait in for someone to come and fit something that's of no benefit to me anyway. If they do eventually fit one, I'll be keeping or fitting a dumb meter on the line-in anyway because I don't trust them to have it set reading accurately. My level of trust in utility companies is near zero. So it'll mean more rather than less meter reading for me. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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I have resisted Scottish Power's attempts to strongarm me into having one. I also won't allow a direct debit, my
parents and sister have had to fight tooth and nail to get back overpayments that their suppliers have just
taken. My sister has just managed to get the £700 odd quid that her supplier have been holding, my mum, now
a pensioner is still trying to get back the £1k that her supplier is hanging on to. I told her to cancel her DD and not pay
again until the margin has been spent up on power.
It means I have to submit a reading once a month for my gas and electricity but that doesn't take more than about 10
mins to read the meters, log on, enter the readings and then pay the bills. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Not for me. I'm not a fan.
It's unlikely I'd get one even if I wanted one. Mobile signal is patchy in the house and is only really reliable upstairs with a window between the phone and mast. My meter is behind a metre thick drystone wall.
Depending on the supplier, they can and do monitor activity. If I'm working on any of the electrics here I'll sometimes pull the service fuse (no room to fit a proper isolator at present). Obviously I don't want the supplier to know that.
Also my old (fitted in the 90s) meter will run backwards if my solar panels are producing enough power and the water tank is hot which is something I'm obviously unaware of...
I can and do monitor usage and generation. Anyone can do this, you don't need a special meter either - you can buy monitors easily. All you have to do is clamp the supplied current transformer to the phase cable between the meter and fuse, and program the unit with your tariff information. It'll tell you consumption in kW/h, how much it's costing and even the carbon you're responsible for. |
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I've had a prepayment one for probably 10 years because social housing - so when they said they were putting one in, I just went with it.
Top it up through me phone - individually for gas or electric, not difficult.
There was a card somewhere that you take to the corner shop but I've never used it, don't know how
Saves me reading the meter which I'd have to stand on a stepladder in the hallway to read anyway.
There's only me here so my erratic usage is probably not within any interesting demographic group (although I'm sure that eccentric old single bints in London are quite a high statistic ).
When it beeps at me that the credit is low I just bung in another 30 squids. Recently for the gas its been 50 cos I *have* got it ramped up for quite a lot of the time when I am indoors.
Basically I'm idle, so it suits me fine.
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