NOT SO SMART METER

INVESTIGATION INTO THE SO CALLED SMART METERS

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Science & Technology

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• SOLAR
• ENERGY
• WIND
• ELECTRIC

[gavincurtis]

On a serious note; can the utility cut power to the house remotely with these?

[doug2877]

@gavincurtis yep,, among other things

[wheely132]

i just got one................

[doug2877]

@wheely132 Sorry about that

[starfish50]

I am really angry ONCOR Smart Texas came out and just put in a SMART METOR despite my protest, I DID NOT want the thing put in after reports that they raise your bill, but the guy put the thing in anyway, They give out a signal, who knows what is in that signal about your home?

[doug2877]

@starfish50 and guess what your paying for that meter over the next 10 years, thanks for your comment

[bigdogphoto]

A tyrannical government could issue carbon ration cards, they already want to tax the air we breath. The ultimate government goal, in my opinion, is rationing. Dept of Energy also required the ability to remotely shut off your power.The utility company may have a goal of implementing a mind numbing, complex, tiered pricing model that will extract the maximum profit from the uninformed customer. How else do you extract more profits from a relatively fixed customer base?

[nohealthcare62]

@crisss994 BULLSHIT ! This is THE PLAN wait and see your SCREWED with SMART METERS !

[westvandude]

@doug2877 Pull a magnetron out of any microwave. Build an aluminum shroud "horn" on the magnetron to fit over a smart meter plus a flat shield around the edge - no fooling around it's 1000w of RF energy. Put it over the smart meter. Plug it in for a couple seconds. The smart meter will turn into a dumb meter instantly. No outside damage. If you're unlucky the meter may catch fire.

[lanceehansen]

wrap it in foil and ground the foil to box

[altheman25]

Meters have a lifecycle and must be replaced after X number of years - so you would get a new meter anyway, which you will pay for. The real benefit of electric smart meters is that the utility will be able to contol the amount of power distributed at any given time, and as a result not have to build new power gen plants, which you will pay for in rate adjustments. If your meter is reporting inaccurately, notify the utility. By code they must be within a certain degree of accuracy.

[humisking]

Fuck this Stupid meter!!!!!!!!! my bill 3/18 to the house I moved into $17.27 and then on 4/16 bill was $91.40, on 5/17 181.65, on 6/16 262.74 Yes hot in vegas may to june this was with the old meter. New meter installed in June 7/31 408.25 on 8/16 faking 466.86 then 9/15 after Istopped using all AC in home sweating everynight still 396,91 on 10/15 350.01 and 11/15 350.68 Its already winter 350 bucks wtf!!!!!!!!!! who can I go to?

[BlackOpsSwagg]

I heard people been getting sick of them?

[theFLCLguy]

You only hear about people whos bill have come up but there is plenty of people who had their bill decreased.

It has to do with how they used to do billing.

The old way was that they only regularly checked how much the block used and only checked individuals every so often and used the individual amounts to figure out how much of the the total block on average each house used.

Thus it was often spread out more evenly among the block.

Now with the smart meters they do it based on individuals

[ddanielmiester]

@doug2877 Well, sorta. They can come out and remove the meter to cut your power. But there's nothing "remote" about it.

These smart meters are simply a coil of wire right next to another coil of wire to which some expensive electronics and a radio *TRANSMITTER* (is there any way I can emphasize the transmit-only part of 'transmitter'?)

[mch212]

FYI.... Smart meters are not "smart". They are the same old meters that have always been there, they just have a communication module installed. This allows them to send the same reading into the utility without them haveing to send a person out there to read it. They could get the exact same usage information by sending the meter reader out there everyday....again, I repeat, the meters are not smart.....they have no intelligence, they only register how much electricity is used.

[Blackscienceproject1]

@starfish50 The meter will not raise your bill... but the utility might start billing you differently, so you should see exactly how they are billing you. And the meter will only send Energy usage information...it cant collect anything else...its not a camera in your house spying on every move, Hopefully they will give you an In home display which is a good thing.

[cputecch]

@gavincurtis no!!!!!