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Smart meter backup

Kelly Marie Angel

Hi this just a point of curiosity  but I was just wondering if smart meter backup batterys  are rechargeable I suppose the fact that we mite possibly be in for a winter of powercuts  peaked my interest

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    If the mobile base station is on the same substation and is also off,  there  may not be a lot of point in phoning home

    Down south perhaps but as I understand it for the rest of us smart meters don't use the mobile network. In any even I'd hope the base stations would have a UPS or generators that could keep them going for a bit. Even a few minutes should be enough to provide the DNO with enough information to work out if it's a singe consumer's cut-out, or a substation fuse, or roughly where in between a cable's gone bang.

       - Andy.

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    If the mobile base station is on the same substation and is also off,  there  may not be a lot of point in phoning home

    Down south perhaps but as I understand it for the rest of us smart meters don't use the mobile network. In any even I'd hope the base stations would have a UPS or generators that could keep them going for a bit. Even a few minutes should be enough to provide the DNO with enough information to work out if it's a singe consumer's cut-out, or a substation fuse, or roughly where in between a cable's gone bang.

       - Andy.

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