Re: overload light Re: Pole PIg question

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Original poster: Edward Wingate <ewing7-at-rochester.rr-dot-com> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: David Speck <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>
 >
 > Calling the power company here has been an exercise in futility.  They
 > assume that you are a total dunce, and give a ridiculously simplified
 > answer, or more likely, they don't even know themselves.

Dave,

I feel your frustration! I think you and I have the same power company
(NM).

I have been battling with them about a $100 charge, which has since been
removed, that they tacked on to the electric bill for my lab, because
they claimed they couldn't read the meter due to the fact that I
controlled access which is NOT the case. Access to the meter hasn't been
a problem for the last ten years and as you know it's on the outside of
the building and easily read by anyone with a two legs and a pair of
eyes. Long story, so I won't go into details, but I get the impression
that the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing!

More problems may be on the way! The old analog meters on both the house
and my lab have now been upgraded to digital radio remote reading and my
question now is......how well protected against EMI are these new
meters? Does anyone on the list have any experience with the new digital
electric meters and Tesla coils or will I have to wait until spring to
fire up the magnifier and find out just how tough they are or are not?!
Will the electric bill for my lab be normal, really low or really high?
I've left the stereo in the lab on while firing the magnifier with no
ill effects because of the heavy filtering in my power cabinet.
But......

The guys can't have fun videotaping the wildly spinning meter wheel
while the magnifier is running anymore either. All there is on the new
meter face are digits and a small flashing arrow.

Ed Wingate RATCB