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Originally Posted by McMurdo
'I'd have thought most people still have 'old analogue' meters, dont they? I do..and my Dads, and in fact everyone I know...'
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We were on an Economy 7 dual-rate electromechanical meter, even when we did away with economy 7 about eleven years ago and went single-rate. I got it replaced with a plastic solid-state meter only when it started giving disputable readings maybe five years back.
When we did up next door, the E/M meter was ripped out and replaced with a solid state LCD version. My mam still has an E/M meter.
I suspect that the older meters will only get phased out as they fall below the legal 2% accuracy or otherwise fail, though this might be accelerated with the onset of 'smart' meters, which we're not obliged to sign up to at the mo, although we're being nudged in that direction.
Wonder if anyone still has one with the separate analogue dials rather than the mechanical digital display?