On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 01:26:53 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message

I just wonder how much of this bodged up infrastructure is still in
place.

You wouldn't know a bodged up job if you fell on one. Why do you persist in
making a part of yourself?


It seems that one of the less palatable
sides of a public monopoly organisation
is to make up its own rules as it goes along
with the customer having no knowledge or
choice in the potential danger or billing
error that may have been introduced.

Stop babbling crap!

I would much rather have a choice of organisations implementing a
defined specification.....

Yep that is what they did, as stated above.



So please explain why it's OK for a public monopoly organisation to
exceed the manufacturers specifications on products that it uses - if
indeed it did on a widespread basis, but that it's not when its
replacement organisations does installations within those
specifications.

Did you get fired for incompetence?

If the manufacturers intended their meters to run as a design goal at
50% over stated capacity, they would rate them that way.
Alternatively, they would manufacture them down to the stated spec.
with much less headroom and more cheaply.

If there is overdesign on the part of the manufacturers it is for
reasons of a safety or accuracy purpose.

It doesn't seem very plausible that they will have sat down one day
and thought "Now there's that bodger, IMM, at the gas board and we
know he's going to use the meter at 50% more than the spec allows, so
we'd better overdesign it and not tell him"

More likely they will have thought "We'd better put a warning note
with pictures in every box warning him not to use a hacksaw to install
it".






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..andy

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