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Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter

From David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter
Date 2017-03-09 16:03 +0000
Organization NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex
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Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> writes:


>On the left coast, PG&E uses 900 MHz spread spectrum for smartmeters,
>not wi-fi.  

And stupidly. 

The electric meters, with a convenient unlimited source of
power, run as a mesh network eventually reaching a node up in
their space atop a pole. Look for two broomsticks.

The node uses cellular data to report upstream, unless it's a
dead spot when they have POTS.

The gas meters, relying on a lithium battery, use the lowest
transmit power by talking to the nearest electric meter.....

^H^H^H^H^H
Error Error

No, the gas meters do NOT use the electric mesh; they have to
separately talk directly to the pole node.... 

And by the way, if you are in the mountains w/ no cell coverage,
PG&E drives a car up with a mobile interrogator..

^H^H^H^H^H
Error Error

....drives a car up, parks, and the reader walks to each meter
to read by hand.

I was dumbfounded when their employee told me this...
 
-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2017-03-06 17:25 +0000
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 10:29 -0800
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-06 14:10 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 14:21 -0800
        Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-06 18:20 -0500
          Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 16:35 -0800
            Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-06 19:53 -0500
              Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 17:08 -0800
                Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-07 13:05 -0500
                Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-07 10:43 -0800
                Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2017-03-07 14:21 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 18:36 -0800
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 14:52 -0500
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2017-03-06 12:04 -0800
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 15:15 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-03-06 14:28 -0600
        Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 16:41 -0800
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2017-03-06 14:26 -0600
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-06 15:30 -0500
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-03-06 15:28 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 16:04 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2017-03-06 16:22 -0800
        Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2017-03-09 16:03 +0000
          Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Wim Ton <wim.ton@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 12:39 -0800
          Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-03-09 15:46 -0800
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter TTman <pcw1.cad@ntlworld.com> - 2017-03-06 21:48 +0000
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-06 14:32 -0800
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2017-03-09 16:30 +0000
        Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter makolber@yahoo.com - 2017-03-09 12:27 -0800
          Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Neon John <no@never.com> - 2017-03-09 15:43 -0500
            Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Wim Ton <wim.ton@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 12:49 -0800
              Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Neon John <no@never.com> - 2017-03-11 11:11 -0500
                Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Wim Ton <wim.ton@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 12:28 -0800
            Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkinxyxy@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-09 12:59 -0800
              Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Neon John <no@never.com> - 2017-03-11 17:38 -0500
                Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-03-11 15:04 -0800
        Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Wim Ton <wim.ton@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 12:47 -0800
    Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Neon John <no@never.com> - 2017-03-08 20:05 -0500
      Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 17:42 -0800
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 17:53 -0800
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-03-07 17:58 +0000
  Re: Trust your what-hour err watt hour meter Anthony Stewart <tony.sunnysky@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 15:31 -0800

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