Do people have to come into my home in order to install smart meters?

[chiqifella]

Well given that article, there are legitimate reasons why one could refuse them.
I suppose I'll have to think on this one.
With those reasons out there why smart meters could be "bad", I could always call the company questioning these "smart meters" and sounding worked up over the risks it poses to my home, make myself out to be an old school, "dont try to fix it if it ain't broken", over protective man with his newly bought home.. hmmm...
Something to think about.

could opt out and pay the wages of a meter reader also

 

[thumper60]

Struck up a convo with the meter reader. He said the power company had gone from about 20 old meter readers down to 2. Very few people opt out of the new meters, or even know when they're getting installed. They throw the notification letter in the trash.

u see the shit they wear when installing the new ones, have heard there is a strong cancer risk from the new smartmeters something about the wavelenght

 

[eyelid]

I haven't seen the space suits! I just told them the technology is too early and my living room is on the other side of that wall.

 

[chiqifella]

u see the shit they wear when installing the new ones, have heard there is a strong cancer risk from the new smartmeters something about the wavelenght

what city do they wear suits to install smart meters? my guy dressed casual.
half of your cell phone instructions teach you how to use the phone, the other half
tells you why you should not risk the cancers resulting from such use, much greater than
those of smart meters.

 

[thumper60]

what city do they wear suits to install smart meters? my guy dressed casual.
half of your cell phone instructions teach you how to use the phone, the other half
tells you why you should not risk the cancers resulting from such use, much greater than
those of smart meters.

they wore some sort of shiney metallic hood thing over there head an upper body when they installed mine 4-5 yrs ago looked like a space man,read up on them there is plenty of cancer risk with smart meters some kind of electronic wave they put off,lots of folk opp out because of it

 

[Fubard]

they wore some sort of shiney metallic hood thing over there head an upper body when they installed mine 4-5 yrs ago looked like a space man,read up on them there is plenty of cancer risk with smart meters some kind of electronic wave they put off,lots of folk opp out because of it

Flash protection, not radiation protection.

Trust me, you don't want flash burn from a high amperage short circuit, it fucking hurts.

Electric company will mandate that for safety reasons, others will just use a full face visor, others will mandate a flameproof hood and full face visor.

PS. The dangerous radiation you talk about is a cellphone or wifi signal. We are surrounded by these things every day of every year. People who think there is an increased risk of cancer from these meters need a different kind of tinfoil helmet.

 

[thumper60]

Flash protection, not radiation protection.

Trust me, you don't want flash burn from a high amperage short circuit, it fucking hurts.

Electric company will mandate that for safety reasons, others will just use a full face visor, others will mandate a flameproof hood and full face visor.

PS. The dangerous radiation you talk about is a cellphone or wifi signal. We are surrounded by these things every day of every year. People who think there is an increased risk of cancer from these meters need a different kind of tinfoil helmet.

not sure where I was talking about dangerous radiation, but ya something about the signal, but any way the answer for op is they don't need to come into home

 

[Fubard]

not sure where I was talking about dangerous radiation, but ya something about the signal, but any way the answer for op is they don't need to come into home

A radio signal is radiation, same as light is, it's electromagnetic radiation. That's also given off by every power cable from the charger from your cellphone all the way back up the line to the power plant. SOME frequencies can cause problems, but that's why you have the FCC and stricter rules on radio frequency emissions than here in the EU and in most, if not all, other countries in the world.

As I say, anyone who says there is a risk from these things needs a different type of tinfoil helmet.

For the record, the rollout of smart meters across Belgium is going to be mandatory as of 2019, EU directive. The electric companies own the meters, and it's illegal to stop them getting access. Where possible a dedicated landline connection will be used, apartment blocks being the obvious one there. Otherwise it's either a cellphone or wifi connection as there is provision to add a dedicated wifi "line" via someone's home router since the main players install routers with a special "public" account for their subscribers, completely separate and secure from the "home" connection. You wouldn't notice any difference in speed, in reality, especially when even my wifi fires out a download speed of 96Mbps and less than 10% of the country gets under 10Mbps on DSL.

 

[chiqifella]

my meters are connected to my smart phone for an instant view of home/grow rooms electrical activities. I've located and labeled every electrical device in both and now see whenever any of them turn on or off, the realtime cost of operating it, tips to save power with it, alerts when the same devices are using less/more than normal loads, and alerts when power is out at my place. no worries with a 22kw standby to run both seamlessly

 

[Kingrow1]

Flash protection, not radiation protection.

Trust me, you don't want flash burn from a high amperage short circuit, it fucking hurts.

Electric company will mandate that for safety reasons, others will just use a full face visor, others will mandate a flameproof hood and full face visor.

PS. The dangerous radiation you talk about is a cellphone or wifi signal. We are surrounded by these things every day of every year. People who think there is an increased risk of cancer from these meters need a different kind of tinfoil helmet.

Rep +++ thats some funny shit dude

 

[fearnoevil]

Just like the title says. I'm supposed to be having Smart Meters installed in my area this summer so I'm wondering if I will have people inside my home in order to do this

At first I thought you were talking about the smart water meters which my county installed earlier last year and because the old one was in my basement (where my grow room happens to be) they did indeed have to come in my house.

THANKFULLY, they gave everyone about 60 days notice which gave me enough time to seal off that room air tight (I mean like ISS airlock tight, lol). Then for the entire week up until my appt, I ran air purifiers upstairs and down, put a fresh carbon filter on my fan, ran that at 100% and added a couple of those Airwick stink plugs.

When the installer came knocking I was ready and ran down and turned off everything, and then let him in. I was still pretty worried though because even though I couldn't smell anything, you know you can become nose-blind to the way your own house smells, but he never batted an eye. Just went to work as I watched and tried not to chat him up too much like some nervous Nelly, lol, and he was done in about 20 minutes. But still a huge pain in the fucking ass ;?D