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If everyone switched they'd make the prices reflect this to maintain or increase their current profit margins just like any other rational capitalists in an uncompetitive market. |
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I've just finally managed to book an Octopus smart meter install for April 5th luckily when I'm off work as someone needs to be home the whole time.
I never wanted one but with all this Tracker and Agile tarrif talk I decided to give it ago and hope things don't go tits up. |
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Well thats good to know!!!!!! (That they couldnt just cut power for refusing)
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Next door had their smart meter swapped for another new one this morning. Still no communication possible.
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So I guess if you have no O2 mobile signal, you might have a challenge? |
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The houses on our side of the road, and on several other locations around the country, were all built to the same design and with the same materials. Brick facing and clinker block interior walls, held together with steel ties. Several showed signs of the ties failing, and it was found that they were not of the specified steel required and were rusting to nothing.
So in the late 80s, the walls were removed, leaving the buildings as shells, with the first floor ceiling and roof held up by props. The walls were then replaced with hardened brick exteriors with lightweight insulation blocks inside. Because of the fragility of the insulation blocks, standard ties could not be used, so a stanless steel framework "caged-in" the blocks, and that cage was then tied to the exterior brickwork. I suspect that this metal framework has effectively made them into Faraday cages. Radio reception in the houses is hopeless, except near to windows. The meter boxes are all sunk into the exterior walls, so are probably shielded against RF signals. The techs, stood outside, can get good 2-way comms, but I've yet to see one of them try the transceiver inside the meter boxes. I know a few of these houses that have interior water meters, so I wonder how they communicate to the repeaters out on the pavements. |
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