Comments on: Defend Your Analog Meter Part II https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/ Fighting for health, privacy, and safety Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Mary Paul https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-1119515 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:08:01 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-1119515 Re: Opt out bill – From a post on patch.com, Tom McCarey wrote, “Robert Godshall, Chair of House Consumer Affairs Committee, refuses to release three bills, HB899, Hb902, HB 906 because he does not see any value in them. He received $28,100 in campaign contributins from utilities, and his son, Grey, has been promoted to manager of PECO’s smart meter program.

http://patch.com/pennsylvania/abington/how-smart-is-this#.VCr9qkZXpAm

http://votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/9143/robert-godshall#.VCr-skZXpAl

]]> By: Denise https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-673553 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:00:24 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-673553 What about help in PA?? They were here today. I told them NO and they left. But they said they will be back…They continued to do house after house here without asking! 1 door bell ring was all it was…seconds later i got outside to see her trying to put the new meter in!! Is there HOPE IN THE OPT OUT BILL MOVING???

]]> By: Defend Your Analog Meter, Part VI | Stop Smart Meters! https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-18371 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:58:38 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-18371 […] ideas for defending your analog: Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4 ; Page […]

]]> By: How to create a healthier world — what you can do if you have these common appliances « Burbank ACTION https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-15550 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:04:45 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-15550 […] Others who still have their their analog meters on their home, have locked up their gates and/or built enclosures in an effort to prevent the installer from removing their analog meters.  They enclosusre are constructed to still allow the the utility to read the meters on a monthly basis.  Read “Defending Your Analog Meter,” on the Stop Smart Meters website: https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii […]

]]> By: Defend Your Analog Meter | Stop Smart Meters! https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-14069 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:22:08 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-14069 […] ideas:  Page 2; Page 3; Page 4; Page […]

]]> By: Analogue Meters https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-7583 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:34:00 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-7583 What a great idea to protect those intruders from getting your analog meters.

]]> By: onthelevelblog https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-6537 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:20:58 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-6537 In reply to HillRunner.

That’s a grand idea!! (except for two things) The utilities certainly do not deserve any honey- and analog electrical meters actually have a not-insignificant electrical field of their own- not good for the bees! -SSM

]]> By: HillRunner https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-6525 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:42:03 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-6525 Wouldn’t a combination meter-housing + honeybee-house be a grand idea?

After all, America’s honeybees are endangered and need all the help we can give them!

]]> By: Redi Kw from Marin https://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/28/defend-your-analog-meter-part-ii/#comment-2523 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:55:42 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?p=895#comment-2523 Those are good designs to protect your meter. Note that only the meter is locked, very good. The safety disconnect and the main load center cannot be locked for many reasons.
In an emergency, the customer and/or the first responders need to cut the power to a building, that is the first thing that they are instructed to do. In many older installations there is no main disconnect, so what the fire dept. does is either turn off the main circuit breaker in the main panel, and if there is none, then they turn off all the circuit breakers in the main panel.
Most people live their entire lives without having a fire in their house, but shit happens, and I have had to go to houses that had a fire to do electrical inspections and repairs. It is very ugly and it stinks .
I am very well versed on the National Electrical Codes (NEC) and also the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) codes. There are height requirements and clearance requirements for meters and load centers. There is NO code that states that a private property owner must allow a power company to install their proprietary communication transmitters on private property, but the main panel if mounted outside of a building must be accessable to the owner or fire personal in an emergency.
Really important, if you still have your analog meter, you must expend some time and materials to protect it. To build a simple enclosure for your meter, you don’t have to use redwood, you can use less expensive wood.
The cost of constructing an enclosure is far less than allowing PG&E come in and install a new meter, then pay them to allegedly disable a supposedly disabled transmitter, and start charging you a rate surcharge and a meter reading fee that has already been built into your rates forever and a day. They can’t raise your rates if you don’t allow them to put in a new meter, that is the bottom line.

]]>