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Steve IA[_2_] Steve IA[_2_] is offline
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HeyBub wrote:


I think your meter is the wind-up kind. Every month when the meter "reader"
comes by, he sticks in a special key, winds up the meter, and it runs, like
an old-fashioned mantle clock.

The meter doesn't know that the power's off.



That's as good an explanation as I've gotten from the REC.

:-)

Steve

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"But every time I read the papers
That old feeling comes on.
We're waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on."

-Pete Seeger