Smart electric meters

[fpeconsultant]

Has anyone had one installed & do you know if they creat any RF noise headaches?
Thanks
FPE

[ChrisSmolinski]

We got one about a year ago. No issues at all that I can detect. They transmit up in the 900 MHz band, so nothing on or near HF. I doubt they generate any more RFI than the previous meter we had (that also had an LCD display, vs just the old fashioned rotating digits).

There is some software out there that lets you receive messages from the various smart meters in your neighborhood using an RTL dongle, but our particular band of meter isn't decoded, so I wasn't able to play with that.

[redhat]

Depending on the provider, other bands are used too.  Some use 433 MHz Zigbee.  Same here, got one about 3 years ago, and I haven't noticed any change in RFI.

+-RH

[Pigmeat]

I got one years ago, when the local power company first began the switch. No problems with rf.

I did have a problem with the coot who installed when he took the old one off. He gave me the fish eye and said "You been screwin' with this meter?" I said "Why don't you ask the fella who put it back on when one of your bucket trucks ran into the sagging power line in the big snowstorm last winter?" He goes,"Oh yeah, that did happen here, didn't it?" He turned out to be a pretty nice guy. He didn't like the bucket truck guy either.

[ka1iic]

I got one years ago, when the local power company first began the switch. No problems with rf.

I did have a problem with the coot who installed when he took the old one off. He gave me the fish eye and said "You been screwin' with this meter?" I said "Why don't you ask the fella who put it back on when one of your bucket trucks ran into the sagging power line in the big snowstorm last winter?" He goes,"Oh yeah, that did happen here, didn't it?" He turned out to be a pretty nice guy. He didn't like the bucket truck guy either.

Hey Pigmeat it isn't like one guy I know who had his meter put in upside down...  I guess he wanted the power company to pay him for using all those electrons ehhhhh???

[BoomboxDX]

I think I get some RFI from mine, travels maybe 15 feet. Never used to be there.

Possibly some switching power supply garbage from the house next door, though, traveling up the power line.

Never bothered to track it down properly, but I do get a huge amount of hash near the power meter / box, that isn't AC buzz.