That’s quite rubbish. We get at least one or two power cuts here a year. My meters are in. The display thing is in a drawer and I’m just using energy when I need to.A little update on my Mums meter... Apparently the meter had stopped working and they had to send the installer round to check it. It turns out smart meters don't like power cuts and it needed a visit to reset it!
I couldn't find out much about power cuts and smart meters. The installer seemed clear a power cut was to blame and my mum had had a power cut for an hour or so just before the meter stopped working. Who knows, perhaps it was the type of cut? I used to live somewhere where the network would automatically switch sectuons of the grid on and off to isolate a fault and you could end up with several powercuts over a few minutes - that was quite harmful to sensitive equipment as it would reboot and then go off before sorting itself out.That’s quite rubbish. We get at least one or two power cuts here a year. My meters are in. The display thing is in a drawer and I’m just using energy when I need to.
Mine connected OK. I might have a look at it in the winter when the central heating goes on just to see what thermostat sweat spot to use versus increased usage.My mum is not bothering with the in home display. Just as well as apparently the installer has a customer on their 5th one and it still doesnt connect to the meter.
Interesting thanks, perhaps something similar happened to my mums during the power cut. The technology does seem to be rather flaky and some meters struggle to connect to the IHD as well as send readings.We are now on the latest smart meters, we were on gen1 smart meters, which of course wouldn't work 'smart' when we switched supply. Then I got home one evening and started to cook tea to discover no gas. So we had to have new meters fitted. It seems that the meters can 'lock out' if they disconnect from each other as it can assume it's been moved/stolen etc. Well that's grand I thought, glad it happened in summer so didn't need the heating on