Gas smart meter is broken

matt_drummer

Gerry1 said:

It could be far worse than that, if the gas smart meter's battery is failing it's likely to operate the Shut Off Valve before long. 

No it's not.

Who has that happened to?

DE_612183

matt_drummer said:

Gerry1 said:

It could be far worse than that, if the gas smart meter's battery is failing it's likely to operate the Shut Off Valve before long. 

No it's not.

Who has that happened to?

I had a gas smart meter go dead and the gas supply no longer worked.

EssexHebridean

DE_612183 said:

matt_drummer said:

Gerry1 said:

It could be far worse than that, if the gas smart meter's battery is failing it's likely to operate the Shut Off Valve before long. 

No it's not.

Who has that happened to?

I had a gas smart meter go dead and the gas supply no longer worked.

That’s interesting - if that was simply down to a flat battery it would be incredibly unusual as we have seen a huge number of flat battery threads here and you are the first person certainly as far as I have seen who has been left without gas. That said - was yours in standard credit mode?I have a feeling that we have heard of Prepay meters which may have done this, as the battery dying can leave them under the illusion that there is no available credit - normal or emergency. 

I did have a flick back to see if you had a thread about it but couldn’t see anything - if you did could you link to it, it might be an interesting resource for the future! 

DE_612183

EssexHebridean said:

DE_612183 said:

matt_drummer said:

Gerry1 said:

It could be far worse than that, if the gas smart meter's battery is failing it's likely to operate the Shut Off Valve before long. 

No it's not.

Who has that happened to?

I had a gas smart meter go dead and the gas supply no longer worked.

That’s interesting - if that was simply down to a flat battery it would be incredibly unusual as we have seen a huge number of flat battery threads here and you are the first person certainly as far as I have seen who has been left without gas. That said - was yours in standard credit mode?I have a feeling that we have heard of Prepay meters which may have done this, as the battery dying can leave them under the illusion that there is no available credit - normal or emergency. 

I did have a flick back to see if you had a thread about it but couldn’t see anything - if you did could you link to it, it might be an interesting resource for the future! 

Not sure I created a thread about it - just one day the gas / heating went off - got gas company out - they checked the supply and said it was all fine, but the meter had shut down and thats why the gas was off - the guy who came put what he called a "temporary" meter in to get the supply back on, and a few days later they took this out and changed that out for a new smart one.

Luckily enough I had an IHD in the house and that was showing the last reading of the meter that failed - they used that as the removal reading as they had nothing else.