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Posted by Jack on August 30, 2006, 9:51 am
Al Moran wrote:
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> Recently read a story in the local news about someone using rented
> house to grow pot. In the story they said that the electric meters
> were bypassed. How is a meter bypassed without killing yourself?
Now that some companys use the latest tech of remote meter reading
tampering with the meter could go on for quite awhile, before the
electric company became aware of it. Usually when they are caught the
judges are not very lenient in the sentence. You steal you Pay.
Jack
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Posted by dpb on August 30, 2006, 11:20 am
Jack wrote:
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> Al Moran wrote:
> > Recently read a story in the local news about someone using rented
> > house to grow pot. In the story they said that the electric meters
> > were bypassed. How is a meter bypassed without killing yourself?
> Now that some companys use the latest tech of remote meter reading
> tampering with the meter could go on for quite awhile, before the
> electric company became aware of it....
Actually, w/ remote monitoring and latest technology, the utility
company becomes aware of it essentially instantaneously--that's one of
the points of the remote (as in automated) monitoring besides the cost
reduction of eliminating meter-readers...
http://www.itron.com/pages/products_detail.asp?id=itr_000240.xml
for a overview of current technology for one particular meter/vendor...
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Posted by HeyBub on August 30, 2006, 10:27 am
Al Moran wrote:
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> Recently read a story in the local news about someone using rented
> house to grow pot. In the story they said that the electric meters
> were bypassed. How is a meter bypassed without killing yourself?
Heh!
When doing a census for a Rural Electric Co-op, we found more than one
person who had bought their own TRANSFORMER and tapped into the 7,200 volt
mains.
Look, if a lineman can fiddle with umpty-ump volts on the job, he can
certainly do it off the clock.
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Posted by Buck Turgidson on August 30, 2006, 10:45 am
If they look for high wattage use to flag potential growers, couldn't
they just look for zero (or ultra-low) wattage users, too?
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Posted by gfretwell on August 30, 2006, 12:17 pm
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:45:07 -0400, "Buck Turgidson"
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>If they look for high wattage use to flag potential growers, couldn't
>they just look for zero (or ultra-low) wattage users, too?
They only tap off the grow lights so the normal usage stays roughly
the same. We have so many snow birds and real estate flippers with
empty houses around here, low usage is not a strange thing.
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> house to grow pot. In the story they said that the electric meters
> were bypassed. How is a meter bypassed without killing yourself?