Fitting an isolator between meter and consumer unit.

[mikehammer69]

The general public have more of a tendency to buy equipment of unknown provenance

An electrician would know to buy stuff through the proper channels ie; electrical wholesalers not ebay

 

[JohnW2]

The general public have more of a tendency to buy equipment of unknown provenance

Maybe, but that was not the case with the one I'd bought.

An electrician would know to buy stuff through the proper channels ie; electrical wholesalers not ebay

One doesn't need to be an electrician to 'know'/do that. The isolator I'd bought was the same make and model as the one the guy used, ws still sealed in it's original box, and had been bought through a 'proper channel' (documented by an invoice I could have shown him.

 

[mikehammer69]

Yes I meant the public in general

 

[JohnW2]

Yes I meant the public in general

Maybe, but the problem seems to be that the suppliers presumably don't seem to feel they can trust their employees to judge whether or not a product they're offered is a brand new and legitimate one obtained from a reputable source.

 

[mikehammer69]

Anyhow

Excluding the isolator that John w2 bought

Meter installers would assumedly not be allowed to install random stuff that the public hand to them for obvious reasons

 

[JohnW2]

Anyhow ... Excluding the isolator that John w2 bought ... Meter installers would assumedly not be allowed to install random stuff that the public hand to them for obvious reasons

I suppose that depends on what sort of 'random stuff' one is talking about, but one hears a good few stories which are opposite to my person experience, in which meter fitters have happily fitted isolators provided by the customer

... it basically seems to be 'variable' and unpredictable!

 

[mikehammer69]

Ya I suppose they do

I can also see how it would be policy not to

 

[SUNRAY]

Not only would mine not supply & fit an isolator, he phoned the office to ask if he was permitted to fit the one I supplied, nor would he give me the time to screw mine in place to wire to, then he fitted the meter in such a way to obstruct as much space as possible meaning far more effort than it should be Fitting the meter an inch or two across would have been no additional or tricky work but extremely easy to position one in the existing tails.

 

[Mottie]

This is what I got back this morning when I asked if one could be fitted when they fit the meter. Sounds like a bot has replied to me.

 

[mikehammer69]

Is that an AI generated response

 

[flameport]

AI slop reply designed to create replies which look impressive but in reality say nothing at all and are only there to get rid of customers.

 

[JohnW2]

Is that an AI generated response

As I always say, when I see anything done by a computer being called"AI" these days, I think that's all wrong - since I'm far from convinced that there is any true "I" (at least, in a sense I would understand that) in anything currently being called "AI".

However, I very much doubt that that response was produced directly by a human being 'writing it from scratch' in a conventional sense- it looks very 'robotic' and, I would have thought, at most some 'point and click boilerplate work'!

 

[ebee]

Robots (and computers etc) can do amazingly fantastic things providing that they have been designed and programmed with intelligence (including a large dose of commom sense) by humans overseeing things and mitigation against of the law of unintended consequence.
This new art of "Artifical Intelligence" added to lots of things we see nowadays is a nonsense, it is not intelligence.
Just like dynamite or a Guilotine or a rocket or any tool it can be used for Good or Evil or to help or hinder us all, it is the intention and the extreme care of the user that determines what is the result .
Even the most intelligent of us are capable of making a disaster or otherwise even with the best of intentions.

The AI label is attached to many things that it should not be.