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Smart meters

Kelly Marie Angel

Hi about 3 weeks ago I was forced into having a smart meter they needed to replace the gas meter because it was in a dangerouse state fair enough I won't argue about that. But they also changed my electric meter now I've just measured the current in the phase tail to the meter and it works out as about 200mA more than the calculations  based on my wattage consumption ie watts divided by 240 should give amps now is the 200ma likely to be the meters consumption or just something with a less than unity PF? Also do smart meters measure kilowatthours like a proper meter or do they measure KVarh 

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    Hi  I've just rechecked my readings but first I cleaned my clamp meters jaws and checked its battery's and all well there the readings I got this time are that the smart meter draws around 30mA  or 7.2 watts  30mA times 240 volts this seems a reasonable figure the meter is only slightly warm to the touch I won't do it again don't like disturbing the tails too much. I took the suggestion made on here of measuring first the tail from the DNO fuse to the meter then from the meter to my DB. My original measurement was with the freezer running so I think it may have a less than unity PF anyhow think I've done it properly now!!

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    Hi  I've just rechecked my readings but first I cleaned my clamp meters jaws and checked its battery's and all well there the readings I got this time are that the smart meter draws around 30mA  or 7.2 watts  30mA times 240 volts this seems a reasonable figure the meter is only slightly warm to the touch I won't do it again don't like disturbing the tails too much. I took the suggestion made on here of measuring first the tail from the DNO fuse to the meter then from the meter to my DB. My original measurement was with the freezer running so I think it may have a less than unity PF anyhow think I've done it properly now!!

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