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Qyburn

Rodders53 said:

Only way to re-certify a meter is to remove it and take it away to a specialist Laboratory to do that and then bring it back.  So no leccy for weeks or months...

Since the certified lives are written into legislation it wouldn't be legal in any case.

In fact I think all that process would do is certify the meter accurate at that time. No testing lab is going to certify that a 30 year old piece of equipment is going to be good for a decade or so.

I suspect telling them to come and certify the meter comes from some social media conspiracy theory group.

Reed_Richards

jack_tyler said:

 I have heard so many bad things about smart meters both from family & friends and on here, 

On here?  My impression is the vast majority of forumists who post here are in favour of smart meters.  And the majority who post about being dissatisfied are those whose smart meter does not work "smart", forcing them to continue to submit readings manually.  If you don't mind submitting manual readings then there is very little reason left to object to a smart meter.  Personally, I achieve a huge financial benefit from having access to a Time Of Use tariff.     

jack_tyler

This is my electricity meter. Please can somebody tell me what the expiry date of it is? I have looked on the list via the link sent to me on here by Scot 39, but il be honest, I dont know what im looking for??

Swipe

It has a Nov 2003 date stamp so probably expired last year if single rate and 4 more years left if multi rate. The Ampy 5196 multi has a 25 year expiry.

jack_tyler

Swipe said:

It has a Nov 2003 date stamp so probably expired last year if single rate and 4 more years left if multi rate. The Ampy 5196 multi has a 25 year expiry.

Thank you, so basically my meter expired last year....have I got that right? If it is, how come they have only got in touch in the last week?? 

Gerry1

Swipe said:

It has a Nov 2003 date stamp so probably expired last year if single rate and 4 more years left if multi rate. The Ampy 5196 multi has a 25 year expiry.

Now I'm confused !  Is there a single rate Ampy 5196?  (Not shown on the Schedule 4 list.)

OTOH there's no Rate 1 / Rate 2 symbol in the OP's photo so that suggests it's single rate.

Electronic meters seem to be one big muddle with built-in obsolescence and unreliability.

Swipe

Gerry1 said:

Swipe said:

It has a Nov 2003 date stamp so probably expired last year if single rate and 4 more years left if multi rate. The Ampy 5196 multi has a 25 year expiry.

Now I'm confused !  Is there a single rate Ampy 5196?  (Not shown on the Schedule 4 list.)

OTOH there's no Rate 1 / Rate 2 symbol in the OP's photo so that suggests it's single rate.

Electronic meters seem to be one big muddle with built-in obsolescence and unreliability.

Sorry Gerry, I didn't mean to confuse. All the other single rate Ampy meters are 20 years and most of the multis are 25 so I made a logical assumption, and did say "probably"

Gerry1

Thanks, Swipe.  I'm not blaming you, my confusion centres on the 5196 being listed only as Multi but the OP's photo doesn't show a scroll button or any LCD rate symbol.

Perhaps it keeps scrolling through the multiple rates automatically?

The outcome suggests that the OP's meter is good for another four years, so the OP might like to ask EON Next to explain why they think its certification has already expired.

Swipe

jack_tyler said:

Swipe said:

It has a Nov 2003 date stamp so probably expired last year if single rate and 4 more years left if multi rate. The Ampy 5196 multi has a 25 year expiry.

Thank you, so basically my meter expired last year....have I got that right? 

As Gerry says, if it's a multi-rate meter (economy 7), then you still have 4 years left. 

mime20

wrf12345 said:

I have a smart meter and think it is great for TOU but I suspect some people are worried that once the roll-put is near complete TOU may become mandatory to help out the grid. Loading old meters with high standing charges will probably force people off them and be justified by the loading on the grid from using at peak times.

This plus the mess they made of installing a neighbours means we want to hang on to our "dumb" one as long as possible. (They made a complete mess of the Edwardian tiled pathway and even after "fixing" it it never looked as good as it was before).