Sealed tag on digital meter ?

[Watch94]

How can you tell if an official tag is from the electrical suppliers

Any advice appreciated

thankyou

 

[Adam_151]

It'll normally have the initials of the company that fitted it, or the organisation that they we known as before, i.e. round here we often see MP= Meter Plus, or EME = East Mids Electricity which was the area board a bit over twenty years ago and now operated by western power as the DNO

 

[SUNRAY]

It'll normally have the initials of the company that fitted it, or the organisation that they we known as before, i.e. round here we often see MP= Meter Plus, or EME = East Mids Electricity which was the area board a bit over twenty years ago and now operated by western power as the DNO

Round here in the days of SEEBoard it was a number or series of shapes to identify the actual crimper. Our current seals are totally plain.

 

[Old Salt]

Depends whose fitted it. Some metering organisations issue individual sealing pliers to each operative and record which ones are issued to them. So they can trace who worked on it last.

 

[bsr]

Doesnt matter so much any more. At least for the companies we use, meter readers are required to take a photo showing the seals at each meter read. If we suspect fraud we look back and see if the seals have changed.

 

[SUNRAY]

Doesnt matter so much any more. At least for the companies we use, meter readers are required to take a photo showing the seals at each meter read. If we suspect fraud we look back and see if the seals have changed.

Oh how times have changed... In this case so much for the better.

 

[JohnW2]

Doesnt matter so much any more. At least for the companies we use, meter readers are required to take a photo showing the seals at each meter read. If we suspect fraud we look back and see if the seals have changed.

Interesting, and potentially quite clever.

However, if photographing the seals is all that they do, it would seem to be potentially flawed - since one could easily cut the seal (wire) and then subsequently 'replace' it in such a way that it appeared to be unchanged/intact in a photo. One would need at least 'a tug' as well as the photo to be at all 'sure'!

Kind Regards, John