"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Friday, 20 May 2016 00:02:30 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 16:24:57 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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polygonum wrote:
On 18/05/2016 14:18, whisky-dave wrote:
Which is why it's be stupid to limit 3KW kettles to 1.5KW.

How do you limit "3KW kettles to 1.5KW"? Use half the voltage?

Think Dave may be guessing about what EU legislation may be proposed.

Not neccesarily EU.



theory being that because they have put an upper limit on the power
consumption of vacuum cleaners, they'll also do the same with kettles.

Well who wants a 5KW kettle ?
well when we have functions here we often have nore than one kettle
to heat water sometimes we have one for coffee and one for tea :-0


In our research areas we often have 1-6 studetns in a room using their
own
kettles, which is why we or rather the college H&S don't like us using
those plugs with two IEC connectors on them, just in case someone plugs
two kettles in the the same wall socket.



Makes a really good story for the meja to dribble spittle about. Same
as
bent bananas.

and we all know there's no plans for smartmeters to to anything other
than
record don't we.
And they'll be no way a meter will be able to limit what current passes
through bit other than if the fuse blows.

Just how are you claiming the smart meter will be able to
limit the current other than just turning it off completely ?

You've not heard of diodes, you've not heard of dimmers and power
redusers.

Trivial to see if smartmeters have those. They dont.

If your default setting is 3kw. if you want to half the power to the
device you
place a diode in series with the coil so only one half of the cycle gets
used.

Trivial to see if smartmeters have those. They dont.

If the smart meters were capable of doing that, it would
be obvious from an inspection of the meter.

They aren't yet.

Trivial to see if they ever become capable of doing that.

Can you see what yuor phone can do by looking at it.

Yep, completely trivial to see that it can't by itself
have any effect on the power the entire house uses.

Do yuo know what to lok for in a smart
meter to be able to tell what it can do ?

Yep on being able to vary what power the house can
consume other than turning it it all off or all on.