♥️ I love my digital but dumb meter because........

Reed_Richards

Netexporter said:

I think it is just a standard design, like G4 gas meters, that any manufacturer can make.

Possibly.  If so, does the design have a name (like G4 gas meters)?

MeteredOut said:

I hate by digital but dumb gas meter because https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6452074/gas-meter-still-increasing-whilst-gas-isolated-siemens-landis-gyr-e6s#latest

That thread runs for 19 pages.  That's a lot of hate!

Netexporter

If so, does the design have a name

5235A  Same model number on different brands.

MeteredOut

MeteredOut said:

I hate by digital but dumb gas meter because https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6452074/gas-meter-still-increasing-whilst-gas-isolated-siemens-landis-gyr-e6s#latest

That thread runs for 19 pages.  That's a lot of hate!

Executive summary: My gas meter is bolloxed, EDF don't care, Energy Ombudsman is toothless.

Reed_Richards

Netexporter said:

If so, does the design have a name

5235A  Same model number on different brands.

No, same model on the same brand I now discover; only the brand name has changed.  At least according to this:
https://forum.ovoenergy.com/smart-meters-136/the-story-of-ampy-and-landis-gyr-the-strangest-smart-meter-brand-in-the-uk-9204

Netexporter

That's interesting. I'm reasonably certain I'd seen visually identical meters with other branding, too. Still, the world of work is now a distant memory, so I might just have imagined to whole thing.

QrizB

Reed_Richards said:

Netexporter said:

If so, does the design have a name

5235A  Same model number on different brands.

No, same model on the same brand I now discover; only the brand name has changed.  At least according to this:
https://forum.ovoenergy.com/smart-meters-136/the-story-of-ampy-and-landis-gyr-the-strangest-smart-meter-brand-in-the-uk-9204

I was goung to post that

Yes, Ampy and L&G are the same company.

SAC2334

Reed_Richards said:

I've never understood why what appears to be the same electricity meter can come branded as if from several different manufacturers.  Do you know, @SAC2334?

No, and I ve seen I think three attributed to the exact same digital electric meter which has the worst record I ve known for going blank screen. I can t remember the model number but its prob the cheapest available electric meter , small white , mainly by Ampy , but I ve seen same one under Siemens and Landys Gyr..I checked the cost one year...a tenner lol . This meter has caused more problems than any other. I met a bloke who worked for Northern Powergrid who told me they got a bin full of them 

EssexHebridean

They are all the same company though aren't they, so just a case of the branding being different depending on which factory makes them? 

Spoonie_Turtle

EssexHebridean said:

They are all the same company though aren't they, so just a case of the branding being different depending on which factory makes them? 

From the article it seems Ampy is the older branding, then taken over by (? Or perhaps rose from the ashes like a Phoenix! as) L+G. 

I don't know where Siemens comes into it though, you'd expect them to have been at least half-decent.

Reed_Richards

I've found an old thread that links Siemens with Ampy/Landis & Gyr: 
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5614046/electric-meters-inaccurate

Siemens is generally a reputable company so I don't know how they got involved.