posted on Apr, 10 2020 @ 01:03 AM
originally posted by: CharlesT
a reply to: rickymouse
and they can shut off the meter remotely
I have never heard of turning off a meter. You can't turn meters off. The meter isn't connected to the line buses in a meter with physical switches
where they can cut your power. Like a light switch. The only way I know to turn off a meter is to pull it out of the socket.
The ultra high radio transmission frequencies produced by these meters caused much controversy for several years. You don't remember that?
My meter can be shut off at the power plant from a computer. It is read at the power plant by the computer. I talked to the guy who was installing
it and he told me how it works, then I took the name of the electronic meter and looked up how it works. It matched what the guy said.
In a time when there are shortages of electricity during disasters, the power company can turn your meter on for two hours, then turn it on for two
hours then off again. They can program the computers to alter the electrical use while still giving people power so as not to overload the grid.
That is why those meters cost them eight hundred bucks apiece. The government ramped up requirements for those meters so they could shuffle
electricity consumption in case the grid got compromised. I was told by the guy that put it in, I know him, that the computer that controls them is
also attached to a computer elsewhere, so the people who control the grid...he thinks...can control all the meters in case of emergency too. He
wasn't sure exactly who the third party was, he just knew there was some third party connected to their system.
That is so if a main nuclear plant goes down that they can alter the grid to shuffle power around the grid, the whole country is going to be that
way.
Ours goes right back through the power lines, it is a special frequency signal running through one of the main wires. Our meter does not use 5G or
any phone lines or wireless anything, The guy who came back to check our meter one day called the power company to shut it off and turn it back on.
Then he tested the voltage and they had to replace the transformer at the road. One leg was not putting out the right voltage after a thunder storm,
something shorted out in the transformer and cut one leg down considerably. he mentioned it was not a fuse, they could see that from the power plant
somehow.
They also have changed all the transformers here, when a tree falls on a line going to someone's house, it turns our power off for half a minute, and
the effected transformer shuts off and the power goes back on. Cool, better than having to worry about getting electricuted by live wires in your
yard. I tend to ask a lot of questions from people working on things, I was working on my journeysman license years back, so I have a lot of things
in common with those guys.
I guess the Feds paid for most of that upgrade as long as they put certain types of meters in that complied with requirements the feds wanted to be
able to limit power to areas in times of emergencies.
edit on 10-4-2020 by rickymouse because: (no reason given)