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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Electricity prices going up , fake or not
  • Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:16:13 EST



> >Automatic readers??
> I thought walking to the meter was just the way it is done.
>

Automatic readers. In the bad old days the reader got out of the truck,
walked up close enough to see the tiny numbers, and wrote the numbers down on
a
clipboard.

Most automaic readers do not use powerlines for transmission. That's a
tricksty business. They transpond to a signal from an FM transmitter in the
truck. As the reader drives by an address, the unit in his truck bleeps the
meter
which responds with its readout and when that reading is confirmed the truck
drives on to the next address without having stopped.




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