I have read loads of posts' that they say they want their smart meters' removed and the suppliers', (seems that the water companies are also fitting, without the owners consent, smart water meters', too), refuse to do so.

The removal of these smart meters' is based on causing health problems... can someone insist on having smart meters' removed?

Thanks!

Tomgunn said:

The removal of these smart meters' is based on causing health problems... can someone insist on having smart meters' removed?

Smart meters are not capable of causing health problems. There was a thread some months ago concerning the matter and it appears that the customer got his way in the end.

Of course there may now be people who attempt to use the thread as evidence, which isn't entirely helpful.

Hello Chris, thanks for your reply!

I'm not too sure what's going on, with smart meters'... I have seen, as most of us have, reports of health issues, regarding these BUT... I'm not going to push this as I really do not know the truth behind this. I guess the best way forward would be to get readings off of a smart meter. 

Regards... Tom

The thread Chris alludes to is here It got a bit acrimonious and is now locked.

However, the problem is not, at least in principle, with the concept smart meter, which is little more than an analogue to digital converter and a radio transceiver not much different to a cell phone but without provision for keyboard or audio. The problems such as they are do not affect many people, and appear to be more of poor electronics design, either from an EM emissions perspective (exciting the house and street  wiring as a long wire antenna) and/or from the acoustic generation of ultrasound.
Part of the problem is that there is a gap in product standards and therefore  testing that means the wired 'emissions' do not have to meet any particular standard, and generally are not even measured, at frequencies below 150KHz, and acoustic effects above the normal audio range are not regulated particularly well either - bad news for bats, cats and dogs.
In comparison, the levels of radio signal, which generally get the tinfoil hat brigade on the move, are very closely regulated and measured.

Given that things are not even measured, it is very hard to say with confidence what it anything will happen in any particular situation.

There are similar problems of conducted interference from solar panels and electronics with switch mode supplies generally, but metering being at a low impedance point in the circuit is quite hard to filter, chokes with 100A current rating and capacitors with a suitable surge voltage rating being  neither small nor cheap.

Mike.

The thread Chris alludes to is here It got a bit acrimonious and is now locked.

However, the problem is not, at least in principle, with the concept smart meter, which is little more than an analogue to digital converter and a radio transceiver not much different to a cell phone but without provision for keyboard or audio. The problems such as they are do not affect many people, and appear to be more of poor electronics design, either from an EM emissions perspective (exciting the house and street  wiring as a long wire antenna) and/or from the acoustic generation of ultrasound.
Part of the problem is that there is a gap in product standards and therefore  testing that means the wired 'emissions' do not have to meet any particular standard, and generally are not even measured, at frequencies below 150KHz, and acoustic effects above the normal audio range are not regulated particularly well either - bad news for bats, cats and dogs.
In comparison, the levels of radio signal, which generally get the tinfoil hat brigade on the move, are very closely regulated and measured.

Given that things are not even measured, it is very hard to say with confidence what it anything will happen in any particular situation.

There are similar problems of conducted interference from solar panels and electronics with switch mode supplies generally, but metering being at a low impedance point in the circuit is quite hard to filter, chokes with 100A current rating and capacitors with a suitable surge voltage rating being  neither small nor cheap.

Mike.

Hello Mike... great reply, as the others have done as well!!

I don't really know what to add, to this! All I can do is state, what I stated, above... so many people have complained. Seen many videos, from the USA, (that's in America), too. 

Thanks! Tom!