Fuse Energy.. Clocking Electric meters?

rpaco

My Smart meter shows various readings, it is designed to allow solar energy or battery energy to be used if fitted as well as normal mains. (As, I think, most are.) Thus pressing the button runs through a series of readings, even though I do not have either solar or solar+battery. Some these readings indicate spurious inputs or outputs. Active import Reactive import, Active export,  Reactive export,  Active import test, etc. 

Some of these extra categories do show spurious readings, but the one you are charged upon is the Active import figure.  

Grizzlebeard

The continuous RED LED is anti creep mode.

In my old dumb meter it comes on if less than 20w is being drawn for 3 minutes or longer. (I understand it's 15w for most modern meters.)

When in anti creep mode the registers don't increment at all so the few watts of standby stuff you may be using are not charged. (I actually get about 0.25kWh free electricity every day this way as my red led is on most of the time. Yippy!)

10+ yrs ago when it came on continuously for the first it scared the bejusus out of me.