Don’t have a “smart” meter yet, and want to protect that analog meter?
Check these six pages for lots of ideas for defending your analog:
Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4 ; Page 5; Page 6
Don’t have an analog? Buy yours here.
But please do bear in mind, some installers have no scruples about cutting locks.
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Sir,
Recently we had a vote on a proposition, but the wording was missleading, well now
at $300,000. they are going to install electronic smart water meters. We are only 220
Customers with no choice. But there is still time to stop the installation scheduled for 2013. Do you have a shorter version of flyers against the smart meters ? And a shorter
letter of complaint to the District ? We (220) are now paying $90.00 and soon $100.00
a month just for water & sewer service for single family resident. We have several drilled wells, two springs and a river. More than adiquite water supply.
Thank you, Randall Long Fernwood, Idaho.
I put on a ring- the one pictured on page 5. – on my analog meter. SCE sent me a 3 -day disconnect-notice stating that they must have “24 hr.access to repair,replace… etc ..their equipment” ,thus I was in violation . They gave me virtually 3 days to remove the ring, or they would shut off my power. My bill is current and I am on the “delayed installation list”. I was harassed and lied to for 6 months before the actual threat.SCE said I had also”damaged the panel” and had to have City Building Inspection,when ,in fact,SCE had already pressured the City,which refused to lie because I was in compliance,…SCE sent me the disconnect notice stating I was in violation knowing full well that I was not- SCE just wanted the ring off in order to have access to my analog- I checked with the main office and found my meter was installed in 1977 and has had NOT NEEDED ONE service call.hmmm.
Along with the postpone list, I hope you also put them on notice with the sample letter at
http://stopsmartmeters.org/sample-letter-to-utility/
I think you could easily put them on notice again, and rebut their 3 day notice with all your facts above and discover why they need access all of a sudden.
Sounds like they were trying to sneak a STUPID meter change out on you.
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I live in Victoria -Victoria Australia! and I find no debate at all here about the smart meter’ invasion’ so I am asking for your help and advice.
Our electricity provider has insisted on us accepting a a smart meter and normally, I can see how we could refuse that, but because we have installed solar panels on our roof, the smart meter (apparently) is the only technology that is possible in this interface (-between our outgoing- to- the -grid- energy and thepower co. Who we are still connected to because our system feeds back into the’ grid’). The power co. are closing in, saying we are illegall because were putting electriciy back into the grid without a smart meter-.The old meter wont measure outgoing electricity.
Can you tell me something that will get us through this? without us having to accept a smart meter!
Regards, Ian
As far as I know the old analog meters DO run backwards, at least in N. America. If you have a gridtie setup, shut off as many appliances, water heater, etc that you can and see if the meter stops, then runs backwards on a sunny day. If it does tell them to take their meter and stuff it up their ***.
Smart meters only run backwards IF the utility company allows it! So you generally go from a functioning net-metering analog meter to one that doesn’t. Guess what… all of a sudden they want you to meet all kinds of expensive electrical code for devices that already have island protection (to prevent electrocution of line workers). The whole thing is BS.
Wow got your self a problem there. Power co hate solar and people who don’t want a smart meter.
I’d try threatening to go off the grid. There are other meters that mesure out going power. They may stop trying to force a smart meter on you if they think that will loose your money.
For an off grid system you may need batteries, a few more panels and maybe a new kind of inverter.
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Peter, the analog meters really do run backwards. And a person can remove their meter and install it upside down to make it run backwards too ! I don’t really know if this is true, but I have seen an electrician actually install a meter upside down once by mistake.
He caught his mistake and corrected it . But when he left the job, he forgot to turn on the main breaker before leaving. So I got a call from the tenant at 7:00 pm asking when the power will be back on. So, I had to drive all the way down to the apartment building and flip the breaker on.
Also, the smart meters do not record electricity being backfed to the power grid. If you look at one , there are no arrows showing direction of current flow like a digital TOU meter has. And a TOU meter is not a smart meter and does not transmit on the smart grid, it must be read manually by a person once a month.
Some people are confused when they see a TOU meter or a demand response meter, they both have digital displays and look like a smart meter but they are not.
tam·per
verb \ˈtam-pər\
tam·peredtam·per·ing
Definition “c” would apply to meters. Locking up your meter to keep it from being replaced is not “tampering”, therefore no violation exists.
Definition of TAMPER
intransitive verb
1
: to carry on underhand or improper negotiations (as by bribery)
2
a : to interfere so as to weaken or change for the worse —used with with b : to try foolish or dangerous experiments —used with with c : to render something harmful or dangerous by altering its structure or composition
Does anyone have any advice on removing a smart meter in Florida.? Iwas told from Public Service Agency that “they” themselves approved FPL’s rollout of smart meters. How can I protect my family from harmful radiation?
THEY approved them NOT YOU. This is often the problem, THEY don’t have these meters installed and often THEY get paid by the power companies to rule in their favor. If they could they’d do this all behind our backs without us being involved. If everyone would take a hammer to the meter at the same time the power company would be in for a surprise. I understand its THERE meter but its OUR MONEY and we pay for a service. I don’t have a problem with people that don’t care about this. That’s their right, however I have a right to not want it.
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Plan and simple the power company owns the meter and you are denying access. Also unless you are Peking on standing with your ear to the meter for 50 years the radiation from 18 minutes of cell phone use is worse. Being scared of a new digital Meyer that can help determine usage patterns and problems to help you control your usage, alert immediately of outages or voltage issues, and divert power during outages so less people experience loss of power. I think there are a lot more important pressures you can put your energy towards. Its a meter on the outside of your house not cameras watching what you do. You people sound crazy.
Very sorry but this info is wrong on all counts. The meters, and more to the point the router/collectors, are meant to “go the distance”. The science of frequency weaponry is not new. RF, and in particular microwave frequencies, do not come to a screeching at walls nor stop and proceed no farther than your electrical panel or your brain. Why would microwaves NOT cook flesh? That is what microwaves do. Why would any such frequency stop at uninsulated skin? Quite the opposite. The frequencies couple with all structural circuitry as well as all bio-electrical circuitry. That turns you and everything biological into the equivalent of a copper wire, involuntarily coupled into the smart grid circuit. Ionizing or non ionizing, the entire smart grid is no different than any radiation blast zone, which is what a mesh network’s purpose is, to blanket everything everywhere.
The law of inverse ratio is null and void, since it is not just the devices that emit, and there is no “safe” distance from a grid. It is all the many omni directional frequencies intersecting, refracting, especially when routers are not left oout of the frequency equation, If ANY component is left out there is no frequency equation. The FCC left out the routers. This is why and how the whole thing is outright illegal. We have been led to remain focused on just one single locus, the meter. Imagine how powerful the router/collectors have to be in order to connect together and connect with that many thousands of bi-directional meters, to link with each one bi-directionally. Indeed routers are overpowered in order to feed anywhere from 2000 to 4000 meters which also all connect to each other. Now add together the tower, the signal relay aggregators, and the routers , never mind the satellites.
There is no way to rehearse or simulate the cumulative coefficient attenuation of that level of superheterodyning of all smart grid components in this kind of blast zone. Each one of us and all living creatures are being coupled into the smart experiment in a way that makes what Mengele did look like nothing. And of course they already know what harm this does, they just don’t care. That is why ultra low frequencies have long been used as weapons of mass destruction by the military. And that is why PTSD and other neurological harm has gone up exponentially for soldiers exposed to the routine daily use of frequency weapons. It was almost inevitable that sooner or later such weapons used on the “enemy” would be turned against domestic populations at large.
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If you’re in Southern California call Southern CA Edison has a DELAY list you can call to stop the install. 1 800 810 2369 you can ask for a name and ID number for a reference.
The installer came today, a younger Latino man, actually very nice. I was polite and friendly and explained I did not want the meter, he was OK with that. In fact told me about calling the delay list to stop the computers from putting my address on his install list.
The install is done by one person, with very few tools. He did not appear to be the type to hop fences and do this on the sly. In fact he thanked me for being kind to him. He said most people were angry, wanted to fight and even came out with guns. What people need to understand is while this may seem to save money or help control our usage, its killing more jobs, jobs we can’t afford to lose.
I put a sign on my meter that I did not want the new meter.
Then calling the company and asking not to have the install worked for me.
Well folks, two days ago the electric company tried to install a (Smart Meter). Luckily my Son was home and called me. I spoke to the gentleman that was supposed to install it and informed him that: I DO NOT WANT A SMART METER! He went on to tell me that this meter can actually SAVE me money. At which point I asked him; How is this meter going to save me money when all it is supposed to do is measure and record the kilowatt hour usage? He then told me that it he would NOT install it.