--- On Mon, 12/10/12, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Terry Blanton <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Smart Meters Produce Higher Bills
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, December 10, 2012, 7:47 AM
> Certainly, improved response time
> would increase the accuracy of the
> actual power measured. I wonder if the smart meters
> are also
> measuring total power instead of only real power (kVA
> instead of kW)?
> If so, this would also increase the bill.
Good article, I have always wondered about this. First and foremost however is
the very real issue of health concerns due to prodiguous rf issued by these
devices. I lost all my bookmarks due to my motherboard crashing on my old
computer, but San Francisco Tesla Society had a speaker on the subject who
compared the effects to living near a high voltage line tower. If Karl sends it
to me I will forward to vortex list. It would appear to me that that the old
style meters are simply recording the amount of amperage being consumed, and
take no measures to actually bill the customer for the "real" power being
consumed.(amperage and voltage waveforms being out of phase on reactive loads
means that the real power will be the cos of their phase angle difference) The
old style meters then are just recording the apparent power which is the
instantaneous amperage times the supply voltage, which does not significantly
change during load applications.HOWEVER, I think
that maybe someone told me that this was incorrect, that the old style meters
DO incorporate a power factor correction in their billing. So that issue is up
in the air for now. The explanation of the eddy current issue on the aluminum
disc of the old style meters seems confusing at first as it might leave you
thinking that if the amperage is constant, no eddy currents on the aluminum
disc would exist. That would certainly be true for DC currents only, but since
we are consuming AC currents, those eddy currents would also be continuously
generated due to a continually changing magnetic field.
The inertia issue of the aluminum disc also seems appropriate. If the smart
meter corrects for power factor I cant see why the bills are higher.
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > http://rense.com/general94/meters.htm
> >
> > True?
>
>
