Many modern electric meters are of the electronic digital variety these days, whether or not they
are the automatic recording type. Even when I came through firefighter training school some 25
years ago, there were still certain types of meters that critical customers (say a hospital) would
have where the power was NOT automatically cut by removing the meter. We were trained to
certainly be able to detect these type of meters (it was only by the first 2 digits of the serial
number, IIRC) since the typical way that firefighters remove externally fed electrical power
from a burning building is by pulling the meter.
David Rieben
From: Richard Schmuke <rdj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Utility Meters
My meter is independent of the transmission wires but then I have my own 400 Amp transformer on the pole in my yard so I guess they don’t make a 400 A meter. If you remove my meter it has no effect on the incoming power.
Rich
The meter plugs into the distribution panel - when it is removed the power to the house is cut off.
Jim
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