Electricity: reliability of EDF consumption meters?

[Christophe]

Well I blew up the circuit breaker by circuit breaker and the kitchen room seemed to make a BIG current call at startup ... surely the fridge and freezer with a bad cos phi?

[renaud67]

Hello,
I have an example of over consumption at startup concerning a small freezer in 220V (150W): it blew up a converter 12 -> 220 of 600W ...

[Christophe]

Yes, I'm not surprised ... we always say that we need a coef. safety from 3 to 4 for rotating devices ...

[bham]

I remind you that all EDF meters must be replaced in France
First on a few departments then the rest of France and guessed who will pay.

What is this story ? When should they be replaced? I guess it only relates to meters of a certain age?
For the payment, the EDF works council will pay, of course.

[Christophe]

Yeah the CE of Edf, 1st property developer of holiday villages in France! Well done bham ...

Ah yeah, it comes back to me, EDF tried to refurbish an electronic to my parents ... who sent them shit. Edf did not insist.

So I don't think there is a law that requires change in old real estate. Edf still takes his dreams for realities ... and strength in consumption.

[Superform]

see this link: http://www.freenews.fr/nat/6121-divers- ... cours.html

it is atos origine which won the tender in June 2008

ERDF (EDF distribution branch) changes its meters

we, in maine-et-loire, the electrical network does not belong to EDF, but to a local association. I don't know if the counters too ...

[Woodcutter]

[...] our modem router which effectively turns 24/24 consumes 15W.

[...] and even if we had one, it's in the 50W ... [...]

(50 + 15) * 24 = 1560
If you add 1.5 kWh for the fridge, you have 2 kWh for the freezer ...
It does not seem funny to me ...

[Christophe]

Yes except we have NO lumberjack CMV ...

I have a PM230 on the freezer for a few months ... I will check it and put it on the fridge at the same time!

A topic is being created.

[Christophe]

see this link: http://www.freenews.fr/nat/6121-divers- ... cours.html

Ah thank you for this interesting info but nowhere is mentioned the funding of this program ...

A few comments:

From 2012 to 2017, more than 35 million meters will have been replaced

It's not for now ...

These “super meters” will communicate with the distributor (ERDF) in both directions, that is to say that the meter will transmit its meter reading automatically, it will probably be possible for the customer to have access to all this information, for example the maximum powers, the currents and consumptions but also the power cuts suffered.

It will hack grâve !!

The challenge is enormous because it will be no less than 35 meters per day to be changed over 000 years, or 5 Millions for a total budget which exceeds 35 Billion euros.

Didiou! It's the price of a nuclear power plant ...Who will pay and where is the profitability of the investment? No longer having to check the meters ... ok but the rest? Where are the jobs cut profitable?

In addition I bet that the reliability will be down. There are 40-year-old disc counters still spinning there ... 40-year-old electronic stuff is much less ...

Ecologically profitable operation? I doubt it ... a little anyway despite the energy "diagnostics" that this new energy meter will allow.

Finally Edf must have good reasons ...

[Christophe]

Well, speaking of an economic meter reading ...

3 days ago, we received a letter from the company which reads the meters inviting us to read the index of our meter ... all alone and to transmit it by Internet via a "secret" code. The case was settled in 3 minutes (including lifting).

I found this very economical.

In terms of figures: in 17 months, we consumed 3960 kWh or 232 kWh per month or 7,8 kWh per day. It is ultimately not bad considering the fact that we work at home on the net (so 2 ​​PCs to power) ...