Electricity Meter Tampering On The Rise: Have You Seen This? 

No you’re robbing the energy companies. Wholesale rates are five times what you actually pay because of Ofgem energy caps

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The Big mistake was selling off the utility's to foreign corporations, water, gas and electric are all owned by foreign company's that just provide the share holder??

In the uk, unless you live in the Highlands or you old, infirm, or have young children, then you don't need the heating on. It doesn't get that cold.

And yet energy companies are reporting record bumper profits this year. It's obscene.

It's not good is it?

Completely agree.

Absolutely, yet energy and oil companies are making record profits. Any gains in GDP are being hoovered up by the one percent whilst the rest of us pay.

@@planespeaking "Any gains in GDP are being hoovered up by the one percent whilst the rest of us pay" Funny how that works, eh?

That... is a really good point.

Mine comes around every quarter, the water meter reader monthly. That the one meter is pouring out water from a crack is just ignored by them.

Or the 50p meters 😂

My ex used to bypass the meter, years ago ..We were given free electric then..Which should be free to everyone..TESLA gave to to us!

Great for savings when you were skint @@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13

_""Meter man called but your meter was out. It had better be in tomorrow!"."_ Nice one by him.

Not good is it?

3 phase meters the common thing was to loosen the one wire link, so only 2 phases had a current flow in them, and thus it would under read consumption. Of course in older houses with overhead feeds the old favourite was to take a wood screw, and screw it through the live incoming DCC cable, in the roof, before the meter, and use that screw, along with a wire wrapped around it, to power the water heater and the stove circuit. Neutral left in the original position, so when it came time for the plumber to replace the water heater, and he turned off the power, in the days before there was a mandated disconnect right by the water heater tank, there would be a little bit of fun as either the live arced over to the water pipes, blowing the pole fuse, or the entire house floated up to mains voltage. Just had a meter replaced in the block, and the new prepayment meter now has it's own GPRS unit in it, which has a small antenna to provide a link to the metro, giving a power status message and also live power use, and they also have bypass detection in the meter itself.

Back in the 80s in my flat,if you unhooked the meter (old black wheel type) and had it bent over at about a 60degree angle,it’s goes round very slowly,just had to remember to hook it over the top screw meter reading time.

@@efixx Why are most of your comments 'not good, is it?'?Do you want to hear it's bad that desperate people fight back? You realize it's deliberate government policy, with hardly any support by civilians, that caused all this misery and probably way worse in the near future? More people die by poverty now than electrocution/fires.

@@bruiladebeen5671 Since when have citizens not wanted to pay less for things? Just because the people want electricity to be cheaper than the market price, that is not possible and results in less supply and even higher prices. If you want cheap electricity then providing electricity needs to be profitable enough for people to want to get into that business, so supply increases. Profits those companies made are not even only for the UK, they are for many countries.

I know it's just tragic isn't it? A couple seconds either way and he'd probably be OK. 😔 Underscores again how dangerous construction sites are. 😔

Thanks for commenting. 😳

But if they don't have the money to keep the power on they'd probably just rig it again.

But I agree, I would never report someone for doing things born of such a desperate situation.

What about squatters and the weed farm

@@rodgerq Yeah, it's a tricky situation. It's terrible that people have been forced to resort to these measures? But I don't think it's as common as is being made out? I work for a housing association whose stock is mainly social housing, and I've carried out 10 EICR's a week for the last 4 years, and I've never once come across a tampered meter? And believe me, I've seen people and families who are living in abject poverty. What this government is doing to them is horrific.

It should be free., Telsa gave it to humanity as a gift NOT to be monopolised by EXTREMEMLY GREEDY TROUGH SHUFFLERS

@@wecandothiswarriors facts mate

That's probably part of it to be fair. 🤔

That's a bit of a red herring. True, that's one reason, but the more over encompassing reason is smart meters offer more control by DNOs over the electrical system. For the right reasons, like meter tampering, but also for the wrong reasons, like giving an earful to electricians when they have no choice but to pull the main fuse and the meter yells to the DNOs, or the recent story bout British Gas. After the investigation of British Gas breaking into ppls homes to fit smart and prepaid meters, and for those who already have smart meters, have the meter switch modes remotely, even after the practice was discontinued, I suspect more ppl will take a stand on not having a smart meter in place, and stick with the old style meters for as long as they can.

It doesn’t stop it at all. I know people who have had their smart meters jumped for years. It’s very hard to reinforce

Smart meter doesn't stop anybody stealing electricity

If anything i think smart meters are more of a reason for tampering because people are really REALLY distrusting of always online meters constantly communicating their consumption and people are seriously afraid that these are gonna be used to limit their carbon footprint at some point later down the line, so i actually think it's an INCENTIVE to tampering, not a deterrent, i don't actually understand what was wrong with the old system, it worked fine, just as well as this. is it just so the DNO can save a couple quid on sending over meter men every once in a while? Or is something more nefarious at play? I also don't really like this idea that they can monitor my consumption and just switch off my electricity if they wish remotely if i go over some arbitrary limit they've set for the month, just don't get why they need such power

Get a better paid job...

It's the price , it has doubled and tripled in some cases , with older style houses it doesn't help as they were built for coal , what are people to do if they find it a struggle ? , Even people that work or are ok financially are tightening up , cutting back on heat and food , I wonder if this has anything to do with heat pumps they want people to get which are expensive , most want to pay their bills but the prices are ridiculous , I know pensioners who have to put fleece jackets and scarves on , yet Scotland had to dump millions worth of electricity last year as it was not connected to the grid in England , so they lost millions , is this them getting it back by upping the price to the people ? , It's a total con , who's paying for the hotels full of migrants ? I will be stopping my energy and doing without , if everyone did this the companies would have no income unfortunately parts of UK are cold and now they are stopping wood stoves it does seem they are up to something , Scotland can have enough electricity at 3.5p but it's taken to England and sold back at a dearer price , so yes it is a con and affecting sick and elderly the most , ah well that's the great British for you I guess ,

Switch off as many electrics as poss ,

I remember my dad using that device. He called it the flower pot

Why concrete in it? How do you mean?

Neither, its like saying a theft can break into someone's house, anyone can do it, you don't have to be a qualified theft. However regardless if you were or not you shouldn't break into someone's house. same applies to bypassing the meter.

@@midlandemergency whoooosh

@@audigex what

@@midlandemergency That was the sound of the joke flying over your head

@@audigex what bit is meant to be the joke? Someone ask a question so I answered it.

Yes but who is going to pay for it.

@@JimWhitaker Someone else presumably

It could be with enough up-front investment, but what company or government wants to sink money into something that won't provide returns for ten years?

@@JimWhitaker Well...for a start the government can remove the sanctions against Russian energy...that 'shot in the foot ' only benefits the oligarchs, then they can sanction the power companies to return their profit margins to something more suitable and thirdly end the simulated energy market scam and return the entire energy production infrastructure to something resembling public ownership. The energy supply is a public necessity not a private enterprise to maximise profit.

Cat shit adds great strength to concrete !!!

It's very hard to prove in court though, which is the point of doing it: It lets employers get rid of someone without needing to deal with formal processes or severance pay. Just have to make them miserable enough to quit. Or fabricate a reason - perhaps dump all of the most time-consuming tickets on them so that they cannot possibly achieve mandatory performance targets.

Good guesses Sergio. 👍

In Germany: Open the grid-side connection box, attach wires to busbar directly. There you go, meter bypass. Yes, it should be sealed. The seal is missing more often than not, and no one really cares if it is unless you're stealing.

It really underscores how dangerous construction sites are doesn't it? 😔

They are only sorry if they survive though.

Really strange, used the exact same rig with the exact same settings both times. 🤷

@@efixx Yeah - you say it - here it is same. 😅🙋‍♂️ Thanks for answer.

What was your tune of choice David? 😃

@@efixx no idea!

Probably at AT tele-handaler lifting brick or tile pallets up to roof height

Yeah, volley the link on there by all means. It might be released on Facebook itself actually if that's easier to share. 🤔

Good guesses and sorry for the delay, I've chased up the relevant minion! Biscuit privileges withheld till further notice. 😃

It’s coming soon - useful piece of kit

@@efixx I love shelly too. Especially their lightbulbs (that you just screw in) and their low-voltage things (RGBW2, Shelly1, I4DC) which can also be run on 12v DC. The good with 12v things is that there is a exception in our law that says low voltage installations (SELV) may be done without being a authorized electrician. So just put a plug-in transformer in nearest socket, a barrel jack in a SELV junction box, and then you can do big lighting installations, without any authorization.

We've chased up the backstage team Oriel, our apologies, we shall withhold biscuit privileges till further notice! 😃

@@efixx no need to resort to such harsh measures, probably just a word of caution to them should be enough ;)

@@efixx still will always love this channel and has made me a better electrician which is the best gift yet 😊😊

Thanks James! 😃

Not seen by anybody, I notice. And certain forces claim there _isn't_ a shadowbanning campaign against people who are held to have the _„wrong“_ disability, _„wrong“_ alignment of faith and the _„wrong“_ sexual orientation?... ♿🙏🌻🏳‍🌈🔇🤔

Thank you very much, make sure you're listening next week to see if you're right! 😃

by far the majority of the cost is fuel at the moment, I can't see renewals work being a big deal - and there's quite a bit of investment going into that anyway as sources of generation change.

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One of the major reasons for someone to bypass a meter is because they’re on pre-payment and can’t afford to top up so are cut off! Less pre payment meters being fitted may well mean less tampering. Certainly more pre-payment meters won’t equal less!!!

I was thinking same thing scame 😂😂

Quite.

They’d still rob us

Yur, I believe the team in post debated it back and forth.

They could indeed... make sure you listen in next week to see if you got it! 😊

The hidden words are hullabaloo and Lewis capaldie

Very.

Good guesses Mike, make sure you're listening next week to see if you got it! 👍

Copper is my favourite conductive. 🤔 Wait, are they guesses? 😂 Make sure you're listening next week to see if you're right. 😃

It's not about shopping people it's about making sure people don't cause problems that lead to deaths as happened to the lady in the news story. I'll bet the poor lad who was responsible for his mother's death wishes he'd never done it or it had been fixed before she died. Of course people are desperate but stealing and causing unsafe situations is not the answer.

Again a guess or a statement about my character? 😂

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