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9/23/12 Smart Meter Fires and Explosions | EMF Safety Network
zeebo says:
August 31, 2012 at 5:07 pm
It is not the smart meter. It is the wiring and the meter-base that causes the fire.
I have been removing and installing electric meters for 30 years for a major utility and it is very common, up to 80 percent, to
observe fatigue in older and rarely even new meter base wiring. When this fatigue is disturbed micro fractures occur in wire
insulation and meter lugs and lug mounting brackets. Micro fractures do not sit and do nothing, electricity is a volatile product
and seeks a path of least resistance to ground, these fractures expand according to severity and may last hours or years until
ground is established then you have your flash. This is what causes the smoke and or fire not the meter, but the disruption of
brittle or faulty equipment/wiring. This is fact. Been there done that.
admin says:
August 31, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Perhaps what you say is true…considering the unsuspecting homeowner is the victim of these fires, why aren’t the utility
companies ENSURING installation safety – instead of denying that there’s a huge problem, or paying off insurance companies
and not addressing the problem? What utility company do you work for? In California there’s a major cover up happening.
John Edmonds says:
September 11, 2012 at 3:13 pm
About four weeks after ONCOR installed a SmartMeter at my home in Plano, Texas, one of the lugs in the meter base broke,
causing half of my house to lose power. The lug was obviously corroded, and the new meter should not have been installed in
the old base.
I was lucky, in that nothing was burned. The electrician that replaced the meter base for me pointed out that my circuit
breaker box, a Federal Pacific Electric, showed signs of having been overheated. So I followed his recommendation, and had it
replaced.
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