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No Smart Meter

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I am unable to have a smart meter because my meter board is not big enough.

What can I do about this or am I to be forever denied the benefits of smart metering?

It also begs the question of why the spec for the smart meters didn't insist that the have the same footprint and cable entries as the meters that they are replacing.  If more volume is needed they could be deeper rather have a larger footprint.  Though one expects electronic kit to get smaller not larger with each generation.

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    Probably safe to assume a typo and an anagram of the correct year, rather like 1597 ;-) 

    But that Volex CU is not as old as the 1970s, and is probably from 2000 at the earliest.  Somewhere I have an Email from Electrium sales assuring me their wylex RCBOs will fit that model, written shortly after their Volex brand CUs were discontinued. They sort of do fit, but the lid needs a bit filing off to go on comfortably ….

    Maybe the original board, presumably with rewireable fuses,  was a bit smaller.

    Mike.

     

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    Actually this is a 1960s extension to a 1795 house so I suppose that the board has been there since the  extension was built.  I had the original Wylex board with rewirable fuses replaced about 15 years ago

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