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Re: [LUG] Use your RasPI to monitor your electricity meter

 

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:59:11 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Gordon,

>Unless you connect it before the meter, but that would be illegal...

I was about to say the same thing.

>It's also possible to leech off overheard wires too - but I do recall 
>someone being prossecuted for that. Can't find it though. Ah, this has 
>something: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=9291

I recall it happening in this country back in the '70s.  Family changed
all their lighting to fluorescent.  They lived almost directly under a
HT pylon.

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