In article om,
Dave Liquorice wrote:

It may look 40yrs old but lecky meters are supposed to be
replaced every 10 years by your local supplier as a matter of
routine...

Routine (disk-type) meter replacement has just happened
here. The 'new' meter was older than the one taken out.

Apparently the electricity boards are required to check
the calibration at defined intervals, (10? years), which
they do by cycling meters out of service, re-calibrating,
and putting them back into service.

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It may look 40yrs old but lecky meters are supposed to be replaced
every 10 years by your local supplier as a matter of routine...

They`re replaced on a time interval that is subject to several variants,
depending on the type of supply, but I think 12-20 years is the norm.

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"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
...

Thanks and I will do. Hopefully costs will drop but the key advantage I
can
see is we have so many short power-cuts that if the heating keeps
itself,
the lights and computer on during these then it's a big gain. However I
will need an LPG one which presumably is some way off.
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As I understand it, it won't do this if the mains goes off, as it's
designed
to pump it back into the grid.

Yeah- I thought that after posting. But somebody said these things are used
on yachts so it must be possible to get them going without mains.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On 21 Apr 2005 00:07:00 GMT, Ian Stirling wrote:

The era of induction disc meters being able to turn backwards
disappeared some 10-15 years ago. There is no way any

Looks at my 40 year old meter.

It may look 40yrs old but lecky meters are supposed to be replaced
every 10 years by your local supplier as a matter of routine...

I can state with certainty that it's not been replaced for 20 years.
Maybe it's different in scotland?