I saw a good few burnt down cannabis farms in my time in the energy sector from this.
Smart meters are fitted with anti-tampering features now anyway. Would not recommend trying it. If caught you’re fucked.
I lived in a shared house in Southampton. With a nonce who i didn’t know was a nonce. (Adam Robinson. Google him. Nasty.)
He managed to rig the meter to go backwards 1kwh and then forward 1kwh constantly. Not sure how. But we had electric on tap for around 9 months. Then he got nicked for being a nonce and then they found the electric box all rigged up. We all blamed him of course.
Can’t blame people for trying, but if you’re going to, at least make sure you know what you’re doing to make it as safe as possible. The amount of times I saw shitty wiring charring or burning the backboard of meters that had been tampered with was atrocious.
Also be aware that smart meters have anti-tampering mechanisms in them and server-side methods of detecting abnormal usage. I believe there are ways around the box-side measures, but for the server-side ones you’ll want to avoid stopping the count entirely in favour of slowing it instead (if you can).
Everyone’s noticed the rise in houses exploding this year I assume. It’s not a giant leap to guess why.
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I saw a good few burnt down cannabis farms in my time in the energy sector from this.
Smart meters are fitted with anti-tampering features now anyway. Would not recommend trying it. If caught you’re fucked.
I lived in a shared house in Southampton. With a nonce who i didn’t know was a nonce. (Adam Robinson. Google him. Nasty.)
He managed to rig the meter to go backwards 1kwh and then forward 1kwh constantly. Not sure how. But we had electric on tap for around 9 months. Then he got nicked for being a nonce and then they found the electric box all rigged up. We all blamed him of course.
Can’t blame people for trying, but if you’re going to, at least make sure you know what you’re doing to make it as safe as possible. The amount of times I saw shitty wiring charring or burning the backboard of meters that had been tampered with was atrocious.
Also be aware that smart meters have anti-tampering mechanisms in them and server-side methods of detecting abnormal usage. I believe there are ways around the box-side measures, but for the server-side ones you’ll want to avoid stopping the count entirely in favour of slowing it instead (if you can).
Everyone’s noticed the rise in houses exploding this year I assume. It’s not a giant leap to guess why.