It's quite simple: when the signal goes away, the meter must have lost power.
73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Those PG&E Smart Meters (again) > Look on the bright side: The "smart meters" allow > the electric utility company to immediately identify > a power outage and identify the areas affected, If the meter's radio data transceiver operates on electricity, which may be missing/out... how does the dead radio notify the mother ship once the supply goes away? > which can drastically reduce the restoration time- > especially in rural areas. With rural customers on > conventional meters, some outages would last for > many hours, even days, because some customers always > think that "someone else" will call to report an > outage! I would not expect the restoration times to improve, maybe the response time in some examples but probably not the majority. s.
