The little thing which lifts and conducts electricity at 1:47 is called a pantograph.

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Lora is 915mhz...

This is the really boring way to make nitric acid. You can build a leydig-eyed reactor and make quite a bit of nitrc acid....

This is why I'm offgrid. The only meter here watches battery charge.

I watch my meter regularly (which the vast majority of people don't do) And if there's a discrepancy between usage and my bill, I'm on the phone and i have documented proof and date. I've only had to go this route 2 times in many years and the electric co is always quick to readjust my bill and apologize. My monthly electric bill is around $70/$80 for a 1,475 sq ft home with just myself and my youngest son living in the home. When we're not using a device which uses electricity, we turn it off and even unplug most. I have a TV but it is hardy ever used, last time was before xmas of 2023 so its been unplugged, no cable box either as i have an old PC with tons of stuff to watch and a disc drive. The pc is only plugged in and booted once a month to update (and i use my own custom developed Linux OS) Every light is a warm led, but we generally only use the light from 4 led nightlights most of the time. We cook meals for each week in batches, so the oven is used very rarely compared to most homes, and heat up is mostly done using 1 stovetop burner for a few min. My heat and hot water is an oil burning steam furnace with radiators and a water heating coil, and the thermostat never set above 67* and the house is comfy all winter.. In other words, we don't waste or ab use electricity as most homes do. Now, my current crusade is really digging into why when my actual usage is $40, my total bill is $70/80 with absolutely no explanation.. its not taxes, supply, or delivery.. just a mysterious ghost charge and not one person with the electric co has answered my questions Neighbors around me freak out when they hear my bill amounts and ask "how?!" Yet every time I'm in their home the TV is play for background noise or something.. no one watching, in winter the temp in their home is uncomfortably hot and in summer very chilly and they're walking around in sweatshirts 🤨🤔 Some have swimming pools, which are hardly ever used and at night they have all kinds of lights on inside and out, all through the night, electric hot water tanks and ive seen them run hot water while they're doing something else, and dishwashers, ovens, microwaves used constantly, etc.. .. and they wonder why their electric bill is $200+ every month 🤷 The vast majority of the population do not pay attention to their usage other than when the bill comes, then they just use a credit card to pay it, paying even more due to interest because they just pay the minimum due which is just covering the interest.. and they use several credit cards this way.. Most of the financial problems in the country are caused by the population itself and complete negligence, .. but it's always easier to blame someone else.

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Can you see if these meters can be used to start electrical fires

So what happenes when the electric gets cut.

Why do you think it is possible to decrypt these messages, when there are ways of making this absolutely impossible? For example: 1. The meters could include a truly random key and use that to encrypt their messages. Unless they use a really BAD form of encryption that you can break, it would be hopeless without the database of truly random keys. 2. They could be using Public Key cryptography. 3. Keys could have been sent out electronically long ago. If you weren't monitoring when the keys were sent out, you could never break the messages. 4. Instead of sending out new keys, keys could be successively modified, so unless you monitor (nearly) ALL of the communication with a unit, you couldn't figure out the key. 5. This list is NOT exhaustive. I suspect it might be easier to hack the utility's central computer than to hack the units in the field. However, there might be other viable approaches, e.g. looking over patents in this area, going through the recycle bin at the utility, etc. Steve

When I was growing up. I remember my mother had a friend come over and pull the power meter out and turn it upside down and plugged it back in. So we could use the crap out of the power for 2 weeks . The meter was running backwards.. Then the guy came back and pulled it out and turned it right side up and plugged it back in. So we could use the crap out of the power again. Sorry but my dad wouldn’t pay my mother child support. Why? Because they didn’t have that program back then.

Well I just thought of this... since they are transmitting my private usage information over public access bandwidths then technically they are literally publicly publishing my private information. I am going to look into privacy laws. Lawsuits are often the most direct way to effect rapid change. Thing is... as soon as this is done... they will lobby gov. and get the laws changed... rather than stop this nonsense... but the side benefit is public awareness. I dont think the public would like knowing that not only is the electric company allowing anyone to see what im doing with my electricity in the privacy of my own home... they are leaving me completely vulnerable for anyone to hack it. This is why I have almost nothing in my home that is "smart". Intuitively I know that all these types of devices also link into this grid of the internet of everything.

This video was QUALITY at its finest. I was wondering about these as they are starting to be implemented in my area. Always feel uncomfortable with the level of tracking we all endure today. And this is proof that EVERYTHING can be tracked and sold for profit.

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Well done.... and flipperZERO is just an ESP8266 with a screen, you can actually do more with the ESP8266

The problem is the utilities will be able to change their rates whenever they like according to the time of day that you used the electricity. It's basically a blank check to the utilities.

This sounds like European high tax, but without any of the responsibility and restrictions for how that money gets used.

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Paranoia doesn't mean you're wrong just that you're mentally ill

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Hey if i have a microcontroler which i need to read but it has Protection, can you read it?

Reving old stuff. In case you didn’t figure it out, remember time of use and solar plans. Also, monitor frequencies at midnight. I suspect to cut down on data, meter data is only transmitted at certain times of day.

Your background music is too loud, making it hard to hear your voice clearly

That Internet Archive case is devastating to society on a whole

This is like watching a program from an alien planet.

Our house has solar panels in Texas, so in mild sunny months, our bill should be lower, but there doesn't seem to be any consistency with those meters. It seems like the power company just lies and bills however many kw hours they feel like.

Thank you for your service.

thats why they should go back to old school way it safer

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i’m retired from an electric utility company, I was a field man that went out to investigate theft of service.. when there is a drop in your average consumption, the computer kicks out your account and they send me out to investigate. when I detect hanky-panky. I shut the service off and lock the meter base. I take photos and fill out a report. I leave a copy of how you can get your power reconnected on your front door. they estimate how much power you have stolen, and that is added to your balance due, you’ll have to come up with a substantial deposit, and your balance paid in full, including the estimate for how much you have stolen. Add to that the price of a new meter because you have tampered with the old one.. you can’t just switch the power account into someone else that lives there name. Not only does it sprain the relationship between customer and Company, but it also sprains your credit rating.. that means you won’t get as low in interest rate on loans as you would if you were an honest person. That’s because you are now a risk.. we have disconnected service two people that were using generators after we disconnected their service from the pole. One customer I had had a generator running for years. They could not come up with the money for the deposit, and the bill that they owed.. The generator they had used about half a gallon of gasoline per hour, that’s 12 gallons a day. At $3.50 a gallon, that’s over $40 a day just for gasoline, not counting. The trips made probably daily to go get new gasoline. Probably using their generator only half a day depending on the temperature. Let’s say they were only using about $25 worth of gasoline a day. using the generator for only 12 hours.. that’s roughly $175 a week. Let’s just say it’s $150 a week. That’s $600 a month for gasoline. Those generators are not quiet, I am sure that means neighbors are not happy, because this has been going on for years at this one particular customer. He had about 10 gas cans in his garage in the driveway, add for extension cords, going in the house through slightly opened windows.. is it worth it? I don’t see how. there is a tamper switch in every meter. The company knows that there has been a tamper alarm as soon as that motor was moved. It records not only the time, but the exact second of disruption/tampering. I am retired from the electric company now for a few years. And they have updated the system to the point, where they can tell from the office, the millisecond, that the power has been tampered with. They can turn the power off and on right from the office. Each meter has a built-in cell phone type device that can be switched on or off from the office at the push of a button. when a customer breaks the seal on the meter base lock, and pulls the meter and removes boots when we used to boot the meters or tampers with the meter, they do not realize the Pandora’s box that they have tampered with. It ain’t worth it. Do you think it would be better off without electricity service at all. Do you think you could run your house on a generator? you could run your house on solar panels or a windmill or a Hydro generator if you live near a stream with a drop in water level. I’ve done field investigations where the company was actually paying customers, and everyone of those was a house that has solar panels on it. If you have solar panels, the company has to pay you For every kilowatt you put into the grid. I think it’s $.12 per kilowatt. You will be given a meter/analog meter that runs backwards to measure the reverse flow of the current that you are generating with solar panels and putting into the grid. The most I’ve seen a customer make was $600 a year., over and above what their electric usage was for that year. In other words, their complete consumption of electricity was paid for by the solar panels with a surplus for the customer of $600, $50 a month… The customer had a 3 ton whole house, air conditioning, system, and an electric pump for their inground pool that used 14 A, they also had two refrigerators.. if you want to get free electricity and you have the technical skills, why don’t you just buy a 7500 KW rooftop system and install it yourself. You can buy them for under $10,000. Or hire an electrician to put it in, it will take him less than two days to install. That is the proper way to do it, because he hast to apply for permits and have it inspected by not only the local electrical inspector, but by the Electric utility company that will be paying him for his excess electricity. He puts back into the grid… I was a registered electrician, putting solar panels on the roof is a piece of cake to a real electrician, that is gravy work because it’s all level instead of working up in a hot ceiling or pulling wire through plaster walls or crawling around in the hot crawlspaces . putting a rooftop solar panel system in is just about the easiest work. An electrician can do, of course, there are some things that can make it tough like the height of the roof, or if it is a slate roof, if there are trees, blocking a southern exposure, things like that, but in general, that is really an easy job for an electrician and helper. It takes two guys to be safe, the hardest part is getting the material on the roof. So, if you think you can beat the system, be my guest. Electrical theft in this country is in excess of $1 billion loss to the electric industry in this country. And the people that pay their bills are the ones making up for your theft of service. No different than a large department store raising prices to cover shoplifting losses.

if you tamper with a meter, that’s theft of service. Your service will be turned off. When they catch you, you will have to pay a large deposit and a large fee and pay for the meter. You have tampered with to be replaced. after of year of behaving yourself, you will get all your money back with interest. I am retired from an electric utility company, and I worked in the field, doing investigations as well as other duties when people would move in, or move out, needed their final bill, or a beginning bill, or if they have not paid, I was sent out to turn the service off. When they paid a reconnect fee and a deposit and their entire balance., they would send me out to reconnect the service. I can’t begin to count how many theft of service situation’s I encountered . hundreds Sure there’s lots of ways People can bypass the meter... but don’t get caught… just a simple decline in your average bill year to year will trigger an investigation.. but just consider this. Would you be better off without electricity service at all?

In British Columbia our electric infrastructure is owned by the government basically as an electrical "highway" BCHydro. The positives are it continues to be cheaper than world market pricing for electricity and not profit. Consistently among the 5 lowest on the continent. Downside is it's a lot harder to argue against things like smart meters because everything up to the other side of the meter is technically govt property unless you have a really old place in an old city with some grandfathered in arrangement and technically they did make the system slightly cheaper with not having to manually check meters

I don't understand your motive in messing with meters, and this argument "greedy private corporations are taking your tax money" is just emotional fishhook for leftards, I see what you did here comparing yourself to internet archive, nice try, let's open source firmwares and give it to your government to fix it with your tax money and see what happens, you will live in your utopia but you never see a day without power outages.

Yes it does your just covering your arse smart metres are vulnerable lol problem for the rip off government

I think it is unreasonable and should be unlawful for a power company to use a variable rate dinamic pricing without making all the usage and pricing data available to the customer both real time and historical data, in a format that is easy to read and provides the customer with information on the exact type and rate cost for each element of the customer's usage fee. If the company can't easily and accurately tell the customer what spesificly they are being charged for and exactly how that is calculated then the fee is unaccountable and therefore should not be charged.

As much as I agree with most everything you said and share the frustration, all I see happening is them making it even more difficult, if not practically impossible to extract meaningful data and use more modern encryption methods for all communication. I'm all for the idea and solving such puzzles but even if such efforts were to definitively expose malicious behavior and/or major vulnerabilities to the public, not only would many not be surprised we'd just see another episode of political theater unfold that results in efforts to ensure it can't happen again. I hate being so cynical but let's be real... power is everything and they're not going to allow anything to get in the way of controlling the public with it.

And what is the not so real problem?

you can opt out of a smart meter and go back to an analog meter for a fee per month. Generally around $12 per month to have an analog meter… The concerning thing to someone with an electronics background, is that there is a contact inside the electric meter that switches the power on or off from the utility company. It is controlled by a cell phone phone call. Anyone that ever worked on cars back before they had electronic ignition nose with a set of points is. The ABB company meters are the ones that I am familiar with, they have two contacts to flow the two legs of current down your entrance cable through the meter into your panel board. These electric contacts have about as much surface area as a pencil eraser. That is all. it is amazing to me that a 200 amp panel board can be fed. My current flowing through two tiny dots of contact… when the smart meters were being implemented, the head engineer of the utility company I work for was so against these cheap $36 meters, and tests that the company did on them proved that they will not stand up under a heavy load, he actually quit the company because they were going ahead with it as required by the federal government. He said it’s not gonna work, these things are not going to stand up to the hundred percent duty cycle under heavy load, and I won’t be part of it.. no years later, there were a lot of teething problems, meters fail and are replaced promptly, and everything seems to be good enough no, here is where a smart meter is going to be used in the future as electricity demand rises and generation capacity does not keep up, such as in California where they have brownouts and blackouts during more than peak demand times every customer in the electric company has a category that is programmed into the computers at work. This identifies the customer as vital, or not… OK let’s say a customer is the water company delivering water pressure through the water grid buried under our streets. That is a company that is vital. Let’s say another customer is a hospital. That is a vital customer, what about a customer that controls all of the traffic lights power. That’s final, a doctors office, that’s file. OK on the flipside, let’s say there is a customer that has an electric meter on a billboard, that’s not vital, how about a customer that has an electric meter on their storage shed, not vital what about a residential home, that’s actually not vital OK so along comes a storm and it takes down some powerlines feeding a substation. That substation was vital to a small city of 20,000. They can transfer feed to that substation, but it won’t be enough. What they can do is reduce the load by shutting off the residential load, the load to the billboard, to the storage sheds, but not to the traffic lights or the water supply or the hospital that is the beauty of a smart meter. It will respond to a radio signal. They can actually be transmitted through the electric lines to each individual meter. And rather than shut down the whole city, shutting off power to operating rooms, shutting off the water, turning off the traffic lights, trapping people inside elevators, they can just shut down residential homes and billboards., without shutting down the vital customers, like police stations, doctors, office, tall apartment, buildings with elevators. this system works..

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Didn't they do something similar to hack slot machines. A chip on the end of a stick.

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Wrap the meter in foil.

So has anyone actually managed to capture a data stream transmission and interpret it? Anything "Smart" is part of the Technocracy's Totalitarian control grid, why would you need to multiplex over so many channels and conceal that data?

Reverse engineering is the name of the game in the world of science.

Would you like a CT/PT (transformer rated) meter that doesn't work on a full 240v flow-through design? They grab their power from small current transformers and/or potential transformer (CT's and PT's) that read the flow from the power lines, to send a signal to the meter, the meter data is then set by the scaling factor of the power it sees from the PT's and/or CT's (500:1 for example). If you would like to run tests based on these style meters, I can send you one (perhaps with a CT meter cabinet, as there are more "jaws" than the line in/out voltage, they also have legs for the incoming CT data). These are the meters our utility installs when th service requires more than 400amps. 200 amps and less will have a common full power flow thru. I hear there is industry talk in developing a 400 amp flow through.

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Loose the music. You earned a thumbs down for it. Too loud. The information that i could plainly hear was interesting.

If a device is labeled "Smart" its because its smart for somebody to shill, not you.

The worrying question for me is, could a foreign power, with no budget constraints or lack of clever engineers, be able to intercept this wireless network information to cause chaos in countries? Or use the information for tactical attacks on enemy states? For example, could they, in the depths of winter, bring down a national grid, even in part?? Is it fact that a distributor has the power to remotely turn off a supply at the meter or conspiracy theory? If true, what is to stop infiltration of these networks to turn off everyone's electricity supply, both domestic and commercial?

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