Comments on: Photos of Analog Meters https://stopsmartmeters.org Fighting for health, privacy, and safety Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:11:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Ed M https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1217743 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:11:53 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1217743 New Jersey American Water has sent me a final notice for required meter change. They say that this is required for state required testing, and that this is not optional. It says under NJ utility regulations (N.J.A.C. 14:3-3.8 and 14:3-4.3), utilities must be permitted reasonable access to customer premises for the purpose of rendering service, including the testing and replacement of meters and equipment. Service may be discontinued if a customer fails to allow reasonable access for this program. I’m not sure what to do. My current Neptune meter looks somewhat analog and has a wire attached which connects to a plastic box or container. But no one ever comes to check it.

]]> By: ‘Utterly useless’: millions of smart meters reporting inaccurate readings (UK) – altnews.org https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1178536 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 17:10:18 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1178536 […] “Smart” Meters are computers, they need to be replaced and/or “upgraded” more often than traditional one-way transmitting utility meters which have an average 40-year lifespan.  Recently it was reported that millions of “Smart” […]

]]> By: “Utterly Useless”: Millions of Smart Meters Reporting Inaccurate Readings (UK) – David Icke https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1178522 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:00:23 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1178522 […] Meters are computers, they need to be replaced and/or “upgraded” more often than traditional one-way transmitting utility meters which have an average 40-year lifespan.  Recently it was reported that millions of “Smart” […]

]]> By: Utility Accused of Disproportionately Disconnecting Service in Low-Income Neighborhoods “to preserve the grid” - United Push Back https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1177689 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:41:16 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1177689 […] service as well as collect customer usage data 24/7 and sell it to 3rd parties (see 1, 2).  Traditional 1-way transmitting analog meters don’t allow utilities to do […]

]]> By: Mariya https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1161969 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:42:49 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1161969 Thank you so much it was very helpful information.

]]> By: Mariya https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1161968 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:41:38 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1161968 Thank you so much very helpful information.

]]> By: onthelevelblog https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1142527 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:06:51 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1142527 In reply to Eric.

Hi Eric:

1. refer them to the CPUC decision of December 2014 granting analogs (for a fee) to all CA electric customers of investor owned utilities. See: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M131/K173/131173964.PDF

2. Let them know if they are having trouble getting a hold of an analog meter, you’ll be happy to acquire one and install it. (You can get one here: http://www.stetzerizer-us.com/?a_aid=ssm)

3. Let them know that if they continue to have troubles locating an analog, within a week you will have an analog you purchase yourself installed by an electrician. If they don’t do it, then DIY!

That should do it!

Don’t take no for an answer and tell them – don’t ask them- how it will be.

Let us know how it goes! No matter what do not accept ANY type of digital meter.

]]> By: Eric https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-1142446 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:08:28 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-1142446 Hi,

Southern California Edison replaced my smart meter with a digital one, saying that they don’t have an all analog one available. They are saying that the digital one is ‘not a smart meter’ and complies with the opt out guidelines. Anyone have any advise on how to handle this?

Thanks,
Eric
Malibu, CA

]]> By: Starling Childs https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-889301 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:13:55 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-889301 You don’t have a landline but did? Have you gone completely mobile telephony? If so, why worry about smart metering….much more personal data than that collected by smart meters can be induced through your cell phone/smart phone movement and use…not to mention similar or worse radiation hazards via pulsed microwaves. Get a landline. Abandoning our telephone landlines just plays into the hands of all the wireless industries and sadly it is becoming all too common, eventually they will discontinue the landline maintenance entirely…which AT&T petitioned to do here in CT!

]]> By: Kim https://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/photos-of-analog-meters/#comment-353317 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:23:05 +0000 https://stopsmartmeters.org/?page_id=1998#comment-353317 We have an analog meter, but PPL has been telling us for years, and just told me this morning over the phone, that they are reading this meter through the electrical lines and that they have been reading it this way for ten years. Can this be true??? Our meter has the little clock faces on it and no employee for PPL has EVER come to our house to read it. They told me years back they were reading it through the phone lines until I told them we haven’t had a land line in years. Now they say they are reading it through the electrical lines. I am confused.

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