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Looking for opinions and or experience.

 

There is a wire seal on the access cover of my conventional bidirectional PEA electricity meter.

 

I want to disconnect the meter to do some work on the live side of my main isolator.

 

What would be the consequences of me removing the seal to do the disconnect myself?

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I doubt there will actually be any issue, many meters are unsealed (ours is one) and many don't even have the covers fitted.

 

If your local man removes the seal then you can blame him :whistling:

 

Even in the UK they simply re-seal the meter (IIRC they use a different colour seal) and note on the account. Remove the seal again and you're possibly for the high jump.

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when meter has seal maybe best find pea worker to help with this

 

most time there can be no problem cutting seal but sometime meter has seal for reason

 

meter reader has flag on his reading computer for suspect meter and often take photo update

 

big change in use can sometime start suspect meter flag in pea computer

 

if you sure seal fitted when meter first time installed possible no problem cutting the seal

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16 minutes ago, SomchaiDIY said:

when meter has seal maybe best find pea worker to help with this

 

most time there can be no problem cutting seal but sometime meter has seal for reason

 

meter reader has flag on his reading computer for suspect meter and often take photo update

 

big change in use can sometime start suspect meter flag in pea computer

 

if you sure seal fitted when meter first time installed possible no problem cutting the seal

Fine.

 

But what can they do to you for such atrocious lack of respect for their property?

 

Is there a fixed penalty fine or do you simply give a discrete contribution to whatever charitable fund they can think of?

3 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Get Somchai to do the dangerous bit

Would this be you for hire?

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7 hours ago, Muhendis said:

But what can they do to you for such atrocious lack of respect for their property?

 

Is there a fixed penalty fine or do you simply give a discrete contribution to whatever charitable fund they can think of?

possible there is no fine if cannot prove any cheating

 

but biggest problem is to find electricity meter missing with no warning made

 

after this the bigger problem is time to have meter and power back in home

 

nice to make some jokes about this but pea can make the life hard work

 

guess is up to you

 

good luck with choice

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1 hour ago, SomchaiDIY said:

possible there is no fine if cannot prove any cheating

 

but biggest problem is to find electricity meter missing with no warning made

 

after this the bigger problem is time to have meter and power back in home

 

nice to make some jokes about this but pea can make the life hard work

 

guess is up to you

 

good luck with choice

Has this meter removal ever happened to you or to anyone you know? 

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2 hours ago, Muhendis said:

Has this meter removal ever happened to you or to anyone you know? 

from other people

 

yes for bill no payment


yes for cheating meter connection found with photo from meter read worker


yes for modify of feed to many house


yes for argument with pea engineer meter removed for days making big problem for customer 

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had a guy come to do some welding for me, his welding machine was burning out the sockets in the house, he just took the cover off the meter and hard wired into it. obviously he had to cut the seal,  nothing was said, then about 6 month later a new seal mysteriously appeared

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18 hours ago, SomchaiDIY said:

from other people

 

yes for bill no payment


yes for cheating meter connection found with photo from meter read worker


yes for modify of feed to many house


yes for argument with pea engineer meter removed for days making big problem for customer 

Aha!

But not for wire seal removal  :whistling:

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Many countries use a primary fuse and/or disconnect link for such purposes but rarely ever seen one in Thailand.

Same as for a cover or a seal to begin with as Crossy says.

Why don't you simply go and ask them or are you Thai..??

Reason being in my experience Thai seldom ever want to ask, be it directions or whatever, no idea why.

 

As for cutting the seal, do it down under and you are dead meat so-to-speak.......possibly if you are a Thai local you might get away with it, but if farang, then the two rule system most likely applies..????

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10 hours ago, simon43 said:

In deepest Laos, the light-controlled LED streetlight outside my house caused a buzzing interference on my amateur radio rig.

 

So in the middle of the night, I put up a ladder and cut the 220 volt wires to the lamp..... problem solved!

 

But 6 months later, the local electricity company knocked on my door and politely asked what had happened to the streetlight wires.  I explained that I saw a large owl get tangled up in the wires, and its wings broke the wires!

I'll bet they put you on their "watch list".........????

Nothing like "doing it live".......tip(it's only on at night).......DOHHHHH!!!

cut wire....mmmm...might have been more believable if you pulled the twist and tape joint apart, now you'll have the PEA out looking for an owl with a pair of side cutters.

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