Power meter question

thisusernameistaken
thisusernameistaken Posts: 2 Newbie
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Hi, not sure if it's a silly question or not but. If I press the power meter button to look at the time is that costing me extra money on my electric meter? It's a prepaid meter I have

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  • spiro
    spiro Posts: 6,403 Forumite
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    The power to operate meters comes from before the measurement point.
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  • System
    System Posts: 178,093 Community Admin
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    edited 18 March 2017 at 3:38PM
    But is the clock correct ?. As a meter reader , i have no faith in the accuracy of digital clocks on meters. Many have drifted well out of time and when the hour go`s forward at the end of the month the digital clock stays the same so is always at least an hour out in the summer months until it go`s back again in the Autumn.
  • frugalmacdugal
    frugalmacdugal Posts: 10,077 Forumite
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    edited 18 March 2017 at 12:04PM
    Hi,
    House_Martin wrote: »
    But is the clock correct ?. As a meter reader , i have no faith in the accuracy of digital clocks on meters. Many have drifted well out of time and when the hour go`s forward at the end of the month it stays the same so is always at least an hour ou.t

    it's not always an hour out, should be correct [STRIKE]half the year[/STRIKE], 5 or 7 months of the year, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. ;)
  • SpotlandRules
    SpotlandRules Posts: 192 Forumite
    frugalmacdugal wrote: »
    Hi,



    it's not always an hour out, should be correct half the year, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. ;)

    Not half of the year. GMT is for 5 months of the year, BST is for 7 months.
  • thisusernameistaken
    thisusernameistaken Posts: 2 Newbie
    So that was a yes?
  • matelodave
    matelodave Posts: 8,606 Forumite
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    It's actually a no - it wont be costing you money.

    Why people cant just answer the question that's been asked and feel the need to confuse everyone with spurious comments defeats me. Trying to be clever just confuses people.
    Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
  • System
    System Posts: 178,093 Community Admin
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    edited 18 March 2017 at 11:30PM
    matelodave wrote: »
    It's actually a no - it wont be costing you money.

    Why people cant just answer the question that's been asked and feel the need to confuse everyone with spurious comments defeats me. Trying to be clever just confuses people.
    Your reply was also "spurious " as Spiro said the same thing in reply to the first post, so why repeat it ? I pointed out that the time was nt accurate as the OP said he wanted to look at the time..
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