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FAULTY SUPPLY COMPANY METER METER

John Peckham
I have power logged shed loads of supplies over the years to investigate if a supply company meter is faulty. I have never found a faulty meter. I have found a lot of waste, lack of understanding of what it costs to run various loads and supplies to other users from the complaints supply.


You will know from reading my posts that I had a new E& meter fitted in October and had to have a dumb meter fitted as the supply company does not provide Smart 5 hole meters. Since having the meter fitted the account bill has rocketed to something like 5 times the cost of the old meter readings.


So over the last couple of days I power logged the supply and low and behold the meter is over reading on rate 1(daytime) and under reading on rate 2 (night time).  


At first Scottish Power said I would have to pay for a check meter to be fitted and I said no I can send you my recorded readings. They have now agreed to fit a new meter in 3 weeks time and after 3 consecutive meter readings they would recalculate the bill.


So my new meter is very dumb in more ways than one.
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    Andy B


    As I have already stated I was expecting to have a smart meter fitted but the meter installer said. I could only have a dumb meter as I have E7 heating and they do not supply 5 hole smart meters. So no sale for your retirement fund. 


    Mind you will there be E7 tariffs in the future when everyone will be plugging their electric vehicles at night so there will be no surplus generation at night. Also the pumped storage generation will turn in to a white elephant with no cheap electricity at night to pump the water back up to the top of the mountain reservoir.
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    The SMS shares are dragging their heels, as I said it is said to be partly due to extension of the time scale for completing the swap to smart meters, a process that is not going to be completed quickly if dumb meters are still being installed in new installations and as replacements. Those should be the priority before cold calling customers to ask them to swap just for the sake of it.


    Andy B.
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    mapj1:

     . . . I wonder why it was taken out of service, and if it was checked before re-issue. . . 




    It certainly should have been checked before being refitted. Meters are removed for all sorts of reasons. Changing from a credit to a pre-payment scheme being the obvious. Batches of a certain type of meter are often removed for a test sample, to see how they are behaving. This can result in the length of time they are left in service being shortened or lengthened, depending on the results.  


    Regards,


    Alan. 

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    There are lots of perfectly sound meters around now as a result of the Smart Meter programme which removes thousands of dumb meters every day.  It would be daft not to re-use them if customers either refused Smart or Smart couldn't cope with the set up. 

    Some analogue meters had certification lives of 25 years - electronic meters don't tend to suffer the same wear issues as electromechanical meters but used to have shorter certification lives due to concerns over likelihood of total failure rather than just under reading a bit due to worn bearings. OFC certification is a thing of the past now. 


    As far as OP is concerned could be that the meter is set up for a multi rate tariff but only displaying a few registers.  the missing units may well be recorded on registers within the meter that are not displaying.  In this case it might be possible to recover the readings if the meter reader uses the optical probe port (as most would do routinely).  Meters were commonly made with up to 8 registers IIRC.


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    Sparkingchip:

    I have invested part of my retirement fund in Smart Metering Services, the share price has dropped back partly due to the extension of the period for completing the switch to smart meters, perhaps replacing JP’s meter again will give the business a boost ?




    This is a better graph Andy. A general upward trend.

    https://www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/o/orsted-as-dkk10/share-charts


    Z.

     

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