Ovo secure smart meters

Eon have taken the bait of a much cheaper to buy smart meter and switched from Landis and Gyr to these cut price rubbish things from Secure Liberty as well as a few of the cheapjack little suppliers such as Ovo , Utilita, First Utility
5000 Rupees (approx ) buys you the Secure liberty 100, about £55 , so big bulk buys will lower it even more.
Marge and Ken are going to be surprised to see a raft of leading noughts on this meter, 7 of them with a new meter which has 8 digits in all for the kwh reading ! and god help them with the KVaH reading the meter also displays. That will baffle them. It is a meter which is designed for small business use in India.
UK domestic electric meters have always displayed just 5 digits for the electricity reading.
This meter, Secure Liberty 100, is unsuitable for domestic use but its cheap to buy and thats what counts for hard up suppliers.
It is a business meter with business settings on it which will cause nothing but problems to many of its users, especially the more elderly or with poor eyesight.
Why is 8 digits and Kvah readings displayed on the meter ? and they have the bare faced cheek to display kwhs on the gas meter and iHD which is never needed for billing.Designed to confuse and its lousy to operate with its stupid little keyboard.
Just try scrabbling about with a torch in your mouth whilst propped up on your elbows at ground level.
Eon are just plain idiotic for buying these Indian rubbish meters
Eon have had major financial problems which is probably why they have given up on their customers and decided to go for the cheapest of the cheap.
I m a meter reader and I see plenty of these ex Ovo Indian meters in use with BG, Scottish Power, EDF etc. They do not need to be exchanged when used as a basic dumb credit meter and they do display Eco 7 readings on button 6, but they are no good for these suppliers in prepayment mode and they have to be exchanged.

These meters are not at all easy to read. They are bloody awful ! I don`t think you have ever seen one set in a domestic situation in say, a cupboard under the stairs or deep in the pantry, high up over the door. You are just some outsider amateur who has viewed them on a website when you are playing about on laptop gawping at your screen. Thorganby or whatever you are calling yourself nowadays, only the other week you were !!!!!ing on here about Secure gas meters IHD displaying gas Kwh. Well they display it on the smart meter too
I have many years experience of listening to complaints from the "Ken and Marges " about these appalling cheap meters with a miniscule keyboard.
Most of the ones I see are set on a fast scroll where it will run through a variety of screens when only one is needed.
Just one screen of 5 big digits is all that is ever needed from any electric meter .Why EIGHT digits ? and why would a domestic electric meter, designed YOU say for our market need to display Kvah ?.
I see plenty of these meters with 8 digits but only on large users of business electricity maximum demand meters, where also KvaH and Kvarh are needed and displayed. KVaH is ONLY used in industry, so what is it doing on a UK domestic smart meter
I m sure KVah is a useful reading for Ken and Marge because that reading appears on one of the screens too, then Ken will send that reading off by mistake often enough but mainly the Ken and Marges and the Waynes and Sharons as well just give up with the reading altogether.
Most of the time these cut price s**t meters are in dumb mode so its very important just to get the kwh reading and nothing else. Whats wrong with just 5 big digits in kwh s only. ? no other screens are needed whatsoever on any domestic electric meter. Its just complexity for the sake of it.

Secure also manage to completely muck up the gas smart screen with a prominent display of kwhs as well as well as cubic metres (m3 ) which has been causing nothing but trouble on both the meter and the IHD as well .We have had a surfeit of moans on here already over this huge mess up.And YOU Thorganby, (or Cameltoe, Espresso, Sosumi, Rubidium etc ) was moaning about it only a few days ago.

Ideally a simple digital display of just 5 digits is all that is needed for both gas and electric digital meters with. no buttons to press, no fast scrolling.
They are a recipe for disaster and I implore Eon to think again and abandon them ,even if they are a hard up big 6 supplier who nearly went bust a couple of years ago and need to cut costs. The head of EDF was predicting they would go bust along with their German mates Npower. but somehow they are hanging on.
They will end up losing customers hand over fist.
The first time I saw a Secure meter must have been 7 years ago with a young woman with an Ovo prepay meter who was heartily sick of the thing had switched back to British Gas to get shut of it.

I had to laugh this year when there was a Secure meter in an outside box low down on a grass verge 100 yards from the house in a rural area. The bloke in the house said he could nt make head or tail of it, and he was an electrician !

I m with Eon now for another 10 months and I will tell them where to stick their dismal cheap tat meter if they dare to suggest fitting it in my property.