Fitting an isolator between meter and consumer unit.

[ebee]

I suppose anything that sounds exciting sells more products LOL even if it`s all lies

 

[JohnW2]

I suppose anything that sounds exciting sells more products LOL even if it`s all lies

Yep, I guess that's how/why it has happened - and our government (and probably other governments) seems to have bought into it ('been taken in by it') as well

 

[ericmark]

My son fitted an isolator when fitting a new consumer unit before we had a smart meter, the British Gas smart meter fitter, used the isolator, and did a very neat job.

 

[JohnW2]

My son fitted an isolator when fitting a new consumer unit before we had a smart meter, the British Gas smart meter fitter, used the isolator, and did a very neat job.

Do you mean that he fitted an isolator and new CU at the time a 'smart' meter was fitted? If so, how dis that work logistically - did the " 'smart' meter fitting" perhps involve two visits from the fitter, or did your son do something 'naughty'?

 

[ericmark]

'naughty'?

That is most likely, but there were no seals until smart meter fitted, so would not know.

 

[ebee]

I have been to jobs (Rewires example) and yes seals were already missing so I informed owners then rang the suppliers, they wera always ok then, Often I`d completed the rewire before they attended to reseal, this might have ever so slowly tempted me request a reseal even if it was intact and then "the seal fairy" might remove it to make a tem connection via my isolator.
But yes quite often they were already missing, often I "suspected" a past Electrician had taken the easy option but I few times I suspected a past owner rather than the present owner but did realise that sometimes it might be a near relative such as a son or nephew that might have done it either with my customer knowing or being blissfully unaware.

 

[cdbe]

I fitted one when my fuse fell out of the cutout after I'd been a bit overenthusiastic with the feather duster, the seal was long gone.

 

[mikehammer69]

 

[mikehammer69]

The above type sometimes you could lever them them out to cut 'power' without breaking seal

Not if that's also sealed with a sticker there

 

[JohnW2]

I fitted one when my fuse fell out of the cutout after I'd been a bit overenthusiastic with the feather duster, the seal was long gone.

These cutout seals do seem very prone to accidental damage

 

[mikehammer69]

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'!

Ya I use the term AI because that's the term in general use

Doesn't mean I believe it's been generated intelligently

Speaking of which it reminds of my old lecturer talking about random numbers in relation to computing.

 

[JohnW2]

I have been to jobs (Rewires example) and yes seals were already missing so I informed owners then rang the suppliers, they wera always ok then, Often I`d completed the rewire before they attended to reseal, .... But yes quite often they were already missing, often I "suspected" a past Electrician had taken the easy option but I few times I suspected a past owner ....

I can only remember such details in relation to my last two house purchases (not the least because that covers about 50 years ) and on both occasions we arrived to find the cutout fuse missing,so I rang someone (can't remember who). On both occasions I was essentially told that they were not really interested in such trivia, and that the meter would need replacing 'within the next few years', at which point the seal would get replaced !!

In contrast, when, more recently, one of my daughters bought a new house, we found that the meter seals, as well as the cutout ones, were absent. I rang the supplier, and a man with some seals was on the doorstep within a few hours. It struck me then (and still does) as a bit silly, since it's almost as easy to 'steal electricity' by opening just the cutout, but they presumably perceived an 'openable meter' as being a greater 'risk'!

 

[JohnW2]

Ya I use the term AI because that's the term in general use ... Doesn't mean I believe it's been generated intelligently

Fair enough. I probably do the same at times, when not 'thinking'. However, when writing I try to remember always to put'AI' n quotes (just as I always try to remember to do with the 'smart' of 'smart' meters, which I think has the same problem)

Speaking of which it reminds of my old lecturer talking about random numbers in relation to computing.

There's all sorts of things that he might/could have said about that (although he probably should have been talking about pseudo-random numbers )

 

[mikehammer69]

Don’t get me started on smart

People messing with things that don’t need messing with

 

[ebee]

Aye and calling that "Mr Whippy " Stuff Ice Cream, only proper dairy ice cream is ice cream in my book!