Great video, somehow I missed it. Those plastic meters held up pretty well to the fire. No loss there. Those meters have no character. look forward to more metering video's.
Haha..... *_FLAAAAAAMES!!_* My goodness, you've actually wired them up and have a load going on them. :D The tune you're playing with this, am I right in saying...... . . . ............. its *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected"_* right? :D It really is impressive that they took the heat for as long as they did. That transformer setup you had going there..... was it smoking a bit towards the end there? That might have been preventable with a bit of careful and calculated ballasting to hold back the current being given out to the meters. It also looked rather interesting with the meters only illuminated by the fire under them, as it kind-of had a disco-effect of all the pulse lights flashing at different times. Ha Ha Ha. :D These plastic-fantastic sealed boxes had no use anyway. They cannot be opened non-destructively, there's no calibration-adjusting parameters inside them or anything. Just one-shot boxes which are usually removed after ten years and then chucked in the bin. So cheap that it's more expensive to subject them to an accuracy test and write out the paperwork. Some of them even said _"ReD"_ on the displays which I think I am right in saying, cannot be reset or cleared without a special infra-red communication device which is coded to work with the meters and if the truth be known, only the manufacturer or the electric company has the kit to do that and such kit is not available to private meter owners of the public for obvious reasons.... There was only one thing left to do with these, and that was to have a little *FUNN* with them and have some _flaaaaaaaames_ licking away at their terminal screws. :D Out of all honesty though, if you still have the burnt, charred wreckages of these meters, I don't know if it would be worth hacking them open and hauling out the brass terminal blocks and the chunky copper busbar which goes between the phase terminals. The neutral block will be a solid block of brass with a central hole in the middle of it. Even the terminal screws are brass, (well, the one which I witnessed get popped at Mr. Photon's was at least.....) so even though this is a budget-economy type of meter, they were good and didn't cheap-out on putting steel screws in the terminal blocks! Thanxx for showing, -Wayne's Electrical. _15th March 2021, 22.35_
You're almost right. The _Television Show_ was called that, but the tune is *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected."_* :D If you don't believe me, just ask those meters, and they'll say that they experienced *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected."_* :D -Wayne's Electrical. _15th March 2021, 22.42_
So cool to watch this! FYI, I let my viewers know about your channel in a vid i made, "r20". You have such interesting-looking videos, I want to watch more of them! : )
Great video, somehow I missed it. Those plastic meters held up pretty well to the fire. No loss there. Those meters have no character. look forward to more metering video's.
Haha..... *_FLAAAAAAMES!!_*
My goodness, you've actually wired them
up and have a load going on them. :D The
tune you're playing with this, am I right in saying......
.
.
.
............. its *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected"_* right? :D
It really is impressive that they took the heat for as long as they did.
That transformer setup you had going there..... was it smoking a bit towards the end there?
That might have been preventable with a bit of careful and calculated ballasting to hold back
the current being given out to the meters.
It also looked rather interesting with the meters only illuminated by the fire under them, as it
kind-of had a disco-effect of all the pulse lights flashing at different times. Ha Ha Ha. :D
These plastic-fantastic sealed boxes had no use anyway. They cannot be opened non-destructively,
there's no calibration-adjusting parameters inside them or anything. Just one-shot boxes which are
usually removed after ten years and then chucked in the bin. So cheap that it's more expensive to
subject them to an accuracy test and write out the paperwork. Some of them even said _"ReD"_
on the displays which I think I am right in saying, cannot be reset or cleared without a special
infra-red communication device which is coded to work with the meters and if the truth be known,
only the manufacturer or the electric company has the kit to do that and such kit is not available to
private meter owners of the public for obvious reasons....
There was only one thing left to do with these, and that was to have a little *FUNN* with them and
have some _flaaaaaaaames_ licking away at their terminal screws. :D
Out of all honesty though, if you still have the burnt, charred wreckages of these meters, I don't know
if it would be worth hacking them open and hauling out the brass terminal blocks and the chunky
copper busbar which goes between the phase terminals. The neutral block will be a solid block of
brass with a central hole in the middle of it. Even the terminal screws are brass, (well, the one which
I witnessed get popped at Mr. Photon's was at least.....) so even though this is a budget-economy
type of meter, they were good and didn't cheap-out on putting steel screws in the terminal blocks!
Thanxx for showing,
-Wayne's Electrical.
_15th March 2021, 22.35_
That music was from tales of the unexpected wasn't it?
You're almost right. The _Television Show_ was called that, but the tune is
*_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected."_* :D If you don't believe me, just ask those meters,
and they'll say that they experienced *_"Flames-Of-The-Unexpected."_* :D
-Wayne's Electrical. _15th March 2021, 22.42_
So cool to watch this! FYI, I let my viewers know about your channel in a vid i made, "r20". You have such interesting-looking videos, I want to watch more of them! : )
Is that what you call hot wiring!!