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Aredwood

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#2006787 2-May-2018 21:56

richms:
Great idea putting them inside since access to it is no longer needed. Mine is outside by the front door and stupid neighnbour kids liked to mess with it.

Fully agree. As it stops burglars from switching off your power to see if anyone is at home. (see if someone comes outside to check the main switch). Or switching off the power while you are on holiday, and returning later to burgle your house after your alarm backup battery has gone flat.

The power company can still switch off your power using the pole fuse if they need to.

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#2006788 2-May-2018 22:00

I had argument with the power company pre smart meter about the tamper resistant torx screws I put in the box to close it. The window was too clouded up for them to read the meter and they sent me a sh...ty letter about meter access

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#2006854 3-May-2018 07:27

timtait:

It does have the benefit of not having to leave the house if you blow a fuse, which is great in Dunedin in the middle of winter.

I dont think ive ever heard of anyone blowing fuse in the meter box before?

that would mean the normal fuses inside the house would have dramatically failed. (yes I know some really old places have their normal fuse boxes out the front door).

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#2006858 3-May-2018 07:30

timtait:

Goosey:

Given its a new build, why is your meter box inside the garage?

"my meter box is flush on my internal garage wall".

Funny you should ask that because I just had a look around the neighbours and we seem to be the only ones with it internally ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's not like anyones ever been to read it and this is the first time I've had to let someone in to work on it in 18 months so its not too crazy. I think it'd go external next time purely for the extra wall space inside.

I let the meter run with the cover off for the last couple of days and the SIG reading has shown 12-16. The power meter man called around this morning, he couldn't say why it suddenly stopped but that this area can be a bit crap Vodafone wise and people slightly lower than us have no signal.

He installed a ~30cm long aerial inside the wall cavity, he said that they usually do that vs a bracket with the flush mounts anyway. You can just see it at the top left.

Yeh fair enough. Looks nice. Is it on the exterior internall wall or interior internal wall of the intternal garage.

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#2007293 3-May-2018 17:30

Goosey:

Yeh fair enough. Looks nice. Is it on the exterior internall wall or interior internal wall of the intternal garage.

Interior internal, it backs onto the kitchen area.

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#2007515 3-May-2018 21:34

Goosey:

I dont think ive ever heard of anyone blowing fuse in the meter box before?

that would mean the normal fuses inside the house would have dramatically failed. (yes I know some really old places have their normal fuse boxes out the front door).

I have a 63A breaker in the external box which has tripped occasionally when it was a full house and winter. Its (apparantly) 80 at the pole and it used to be 63 for the house and a 30A for the shed (which was supposed to be the spa), but when the meter swaps happened it ended up all on a single meter with the 63A covering everything.

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#2008245 4-May-2018 22:57

Goosey: I dont think ive ever heard of anyone blowing fuse in the meter box before?

that would mean the normal fuses inside the house would have dramatically failed. (yes I know some really old places have their normal fuse boxes out the front door).

If you have controlled hot water or other controlled loads. There will normally be fuses or breakers for those loads in the meterbox. Seen it plenty of times where the meter box fuse blows, yet the circuit breaker in the internal switchboard didn't trip.

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