I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow afternoon, but wondered
as I know we have had some people on here who might know this, do they have
any issues like making radio frequency interference from their power supply
or whatever?

One of my hobbies is listening around the short waves and it hard enough
already with wall warts, tvs and internet over the mains devices to contend
with, without having my own personal interference make permanently wired
into the house!

Brian

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Its only the in house display (IHD) and presumably the speech synthesiser
that will require a wall wart. No reason you couldnt unplug it whilst
youre using your short wave radio. It wont interfere in any way with your
smart meter functioning.

Tim

Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow afternoon, but wondered
as I know we have had some people on here who might know this, do they have
any issues like making radio frequency interference from their power supply
or whatever?

One of my hobbies is listening around the short waves and it hard enough
already with wall warts, tvs and internet over the mains devices to contend
with, without having my own personal interference make permanently wired
into the house!

Brian




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Yes I'm worried though as presumably the modem and other bits of the meter
have to have an internal psu as well which you cannot of course do much
about.
Brian

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It's only the in house display (IHD) and presumably the speech synthesiser
that will require a wall wart. No reason you couldn't unplug it whilst
you're using your short wave radio. It won't interfere in any way with
your
smart meter functioning.

Tim

Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow afternoon, but
wondered
as I know we have had some people on here who might know this, do they
have
any issues like making radio frequency interference from their power
supply
or whatever?

One of my hobbies is listening around the short waves and it hard enough
already with wall warts, tvs and internet over the mains devices to
contend
with, without having my own personal interference make permanently
wired
into the house!

Brian




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Theyre battery powered.

Tim

Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes I'm worried though as presumably the modem and other bits of the meter
have to have an internal psu as well which you cannot of course do much
about.
Brian




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Tim+ wrote:

Theyre battery powered.

smart gas meters are battery powered (but brian has said before that he
gas no gas supply) but smart electric meters are mains powered, so will
have an internal PSU (presumably switch-mode) and there's precisely
nothing he can do to "unplug" that

Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes I'm worried though as presumably the modem and other bits of the
meter
have to have an internal psu as well which you cannot of course do much
about.

Andy Burns wrote:
Tim+ wrote:

Theyre battery powered.

smart gas meters are battery powered (but brian has said before that he
gas no gas supply) but smart electric meters are mains powered, so will
have an internal PSU (presumably switch-mode) and there's precisely
nothing he can do to "unplug" that

Apologies. Youre quite right.

Tim
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Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow afternoon, but wondered
as I know we have had some people on here who might know this, do they have
any issues like making radio frequency interference from their power supply
or whatever?

An interesting RFI tale...
https://octopus.energy/blog/perils-w...ch-innovators/

On Mon, 24 May 2021 16:04:50 +0100, Theo wrote:

Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it
to call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking
consumer device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow
afternoon, but wondered as I know we have had some people on here who
might know this, do they have any issues like making radio frequency
interference from their power supply or whatever?

An interesting RFI tale...
https://octopus.energy/blog/perils-w...ch-innovators/


Old Nikola would turn in his grave, if he could.

On 24/05/2021 16:48, jon wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2021 16:04:50 +0100, Theo wrote:
Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:

I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it
to call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking
consumer device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow
afternoon, but wondered as I know we have had some people on here who
might know this, do they have any issues like making radio frequency
interference from their power supply or whatever?

An interesting RFI tale...
https://octopus.energy/blog/perils-w...ch-innovators/

Old Nikola would turn in his grave, if he could.

"an inverter (a type of rectifier)"

Who is expected to read that guff?

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On 24/05/2021 17:11, Max Demian wrote:
On 24/05/2021 16:48, jon wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2021 16:04:50 +0100, Theo wrote:
Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:

I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it
to call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking
consumer device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow
afternoon, but wondered as I know we have had some people on here who
might know this, do they have any issues like making radio frequency
interference from their power supply or whatever?

An interesting RFI tale...
https://octopus.energy/blog/perils-w...ch-innovators/

Old Nikola would turn in his grave, if he could.

"an inverter (a type of rectifier)"

Who is expected to read that guff?

yes. As an electrical engineer while the problem is utterly familiar the
language in use is more like marketing-spik

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"jon" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 24 May 2021 16:04:50 +0100, Theo wrote:

Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it
to call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking
consumer device. Not run them yet, intend to do that tomorrow
afternoon, but wondered as I know we have had some people on here who
might know this, do they have any issues like making radio frequency
interference from their power supply or whatever?

An interesting RFI tale...
https://octopus.energy/blog/perils-w...ch-innovators/


Old Nikola would turn in his grave, if he could.

He cant, I nailed the bugger down so he couldnt.

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Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread

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On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?

On 17/05/2021 17:10, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?


He is blind !, so either essential or very useful to him.

On 17/05/2021 17:23, Andrew wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:10, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?


He is blind !, so either essential or very useful to him.

Hopefully in future they will give us a web interface, to give the
required info.

I would have thought that would be relatively easy to add a talking
interface to. Presumably Brian has some apps that already help with the web?

On 17/05/2021 17:23, Andrew wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:10, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?

He is blind !, so either essential or very useful to him.

OIC. Do meters give such problems to blind people? I thought that
operatives from the suppliers were still sent out. Maybe the service has
been cut.

On 17/05/2021 18:46, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:23, Andrew wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:10, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on
it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?

He is blind !, so either essential or very useful to him.

OIC. Do meters give such problems to blind people? I thought that
operatives from the suppliers were still sent out. Maybe the service has
been cut.

Smart meters are sold on more than remote metering. We're supposed to be
able to save oodles of money if we consent to having them installed -
not sure how.

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Max Demian wrote:
On 17/05/2021 18:46, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:23, Andrew wrote:
On 17/05/2021 17:10, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 17/05/2021 08:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

I have just, well last week, had an email with a contact number on
it to
call and get a smart meter installed complete with a talking consumer
device.

Why would sir want such a thing?

He is blind !, so either essential or very useful to him.

OIC. Do meters give such problems to blind people? I thought that
operatives from the suppliers were still sent out. Maybe the service has
been cut.

Smart meters are sold on more than remote metering. We're supposed to be
able to save oodles of money if we consent to having them installed -
not sure how.


By allowing variable tariffs. I currently get 4 hours every night charged
at 5p/kWhr as opposed to 15p during the day. Perfect for charging my car.

Tim

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On 17/05/2021 22:37, Max Demian wrote:
Smart meters are sold on more than remote metering. We're supposed to be
able to save oodles of money if we consent to having them installed -
not sure how.

I can't think of a single advantage, except for the car charging thing
that someone mentioned. Indeed, that seems to be the sole reason for the
push to make people have them. So that charging times can be somewhat
controlled.