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Smart Meters - Now a shortage (of display units)

Back in November, we had smart meters fitted in an investment property owned by my wife.


The two meters went in, the Engineer kindly fitted an isolator which I had ready to hand and then advised that he was out of internal displays, but that one would follow in a few weeks.


Emails, phone calls and 6 months later have just been advised that rather like airline seats, the supplier had not ordered the same number of internal displays as Smart meters and now that they have changed to fitting SMETS2 meters they do not have any displays available!


Problem is that both meters are fairly inaccessible and whilst both communicate for billing purposes are not that easy to read due to the requirement to hold a torch in one hand, a pen and paper in the other and with the third, press the appropriate key button to obtain a reading.


So, after today's call from the supplier in response to a formal complaint, the house is on the list for a SMETS2


Progress........

Clive
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  • Chris Pearson:




    Is anybody installing three phase smart meters





    Three phase smart meters seem to go by the name of AMRs (Automatic Meter Reading device) Had one fitted last November in our village hall by SSE The convenience of not having to deal with estimated bills made it very worthwhile. Similarly, having changed the gas supplier there to SSE as well this last month, requested an AMR gas meter and last week their engineer was able to slide/attach a sensor to the meter which connected to a unit with a Nortel SIM in it. So looks as if it communicates direct with SSE's contractor and not via the electricity meter.  I am now awaiting an email giving a link and details todownload/view our half hourly consumptions; which should prove useful in seeing if any energy is being wasted during the night.


    Clive

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  • Chris Pearson:




    Is anybody installing three phase smart meters





    Three phase smart meters seem to go by the name of AMRs (Automatic Meter Reading device) Had one fitted last November in our village hall by SSE The convenience of not having to deal with estimated bills made it very worthwhile. Similarly, having changed the gas supplier there to SSE as well this last month, requested an AMR gas meter and last week their engineer was able to slide/attach a sensor to the meter which connected to a unit with a Nortel SIM in it. So looks as if it communicates direct with SSE's contractor and not via the electricity meter.  I am now awaiting an email giving a link and details todownload/view our half hourly consumptions; which should prove useful in seeing if any energy is being wasted during the night.


    Clive

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