On 2021-05-13, John Rumm wrote:

On 13/05/2021 08:49, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2021-05-12, John Rumm wrote:

On 12/05/2021 09:29, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Chris Bacon was thinking very hard :
How is it that you can access the fuse? They are normally sealed in a
box, AFAIK.

No, they are usually easily accessible, but sealed by a wire/lead seal
against being tampered with.

Which you can cut off, and no one will seem to care...

Is that because theft of electricity is a lot less common than it used
to be?

Probably not. More likely to be a combination of the supplier using
historical data and algorithms to spot fraud rather than fuse seals, and
the meter readers no longer technically clued up people who are part and
parcel of the organisation actually responsible for billing.

(there is also a slight distinction between meter seals and fuse seals,
where the latter will be more broken commonly anyway for reasons of
isolation of supply).

Good points, thanks.