Images of these Linky meters on Google are of a lemon yellow/lime green rectangular box with rounded corners. I have meter that reads my electricity consumption and sends it to EDF (apparently as it sends me monthly figures online) but it comprises three white boxes, one marked Landys+Gyr, the other with an isolator switch marked BACO. The third is unmarked.
Is this a pre-Linky or an Unlikelylinky? It seems to be closely linked with some nearby device on an outside wall at 2,50 metres from the ground.
yes you are but when the time comes for a reading if you refuse you can be billed for someone calling out.
I am on the fence. I refused one when we took on the new house but they called us last week so I am on the fence as to if to have one or not. where our meter is there is nothing to catch fire its in a concrete room with nothing close to it.
@Aquitaine saying he will move when the time comes knowing how much he puts into research puts me in doubt that i made the wrong choice 8 months ago.
To be honest, when the time comes we will most likely take it.
From what I understand I will be able to interrogate the electric consumption of the house while we are not there against any consumption whilst we visit.
I had a brand new, non-linky, box start to catch fire. Luckily we noticed a smell, tracked it down to the box and realised it was overheating and starting to melt so we’re able to call out emergency EDF services before a disaster happened. Nothing to do with linky, and everything to do with the person doing the installation having put wrong connectors in it.
yes I know I follow linky its why I was surprised to see yet another fresh new discussion. There is sill no factual evidence that shows that linky causes more fires percentage wise than standard electric meters. Also if they actually caused the fires as lots of reports saying being investigated but never a follow up on most of them.
Luckily it just popped one night and apart from the box being damaged and a black mark on the wall there was little damage.
It could have been far worse as our old house was weird and my kids had a massive downstairs bedroom and the metre was just outside their bedroom and directly opposite the main stairs.
Regards to the new linky meters though lots of maybe stories but nothing concrete that I have seen as yet and yes the theorists says its getting brushed under the carpet but you would think more evidence to prove it was true would have come to light. Plus How safe is anything power surges will cause fires, no matter what box you have.
Ah, perhaps I was unclear… I am posting the latest information about Linky meters… as folk do have concerns about these meters which everyone will be forced to have (for better or worse) in around 2020.
Many Communes/Regions have expressed anxiety about the safety of Linky (not just fire)… no-one is saying Linky is more likely to catch fire than the old sort…but when they do catch fire, it is important to identify the reason and rectify it if it is a “Linky” design/installation fault… before they become standard in all homes…
I have posted the latest Linky Report as a separate Thread, as this is the latest info available.
The Search tool enables folk to find every Thread/Link on any subject they choose. If everything is posted on just one Thread… it can become too unwieldy… especially when/if folk go off on a tangent, as frequently happens.
and, of course, your fire (old style meter) would not have been reported in the Press, as it only caused a black mark on the wall… but, did the cause ever become clear?
I have had a Linky for quite a while now. Yes its green, no it doesn’t have a camera. Mine is in the garage so it doesn’t bother me what colour it is! My friend who’s Linky is in the kitchen has made a cupboard to hide it.
I have had a letter telling me that my prélèvements are going down this year, I haven’t made any significant changes in the way I use electricity so maybe it is more accurate !
yes a power surge down the powerline (which is the case of most boxes quite possibly also same with the linky) as they are before the fuse box.
To me it looks like another news story about a possible faulty linky box but no evidence (yet again) to show this. Pretty much exactly the same as the other thread. This is nothing new (no offence) and honestly should have been with the other same posts pointing a finger at linky without any evidence at all.
Electricity can and does cause fires…
Certainly does, but I am more afraid of storms as we have had several incidents locally of house fires after homes being struck by lightning.
3 in the same lieu-dit here in one night, 2 houses occupied, one a slight fire, one a miraculous escape as the occupant was just going to bed when the lighting struck his house, caused a surcharge and his bedroom caught fire. Luckily the fireman were already on place for the first fire, so were able to react very quickly. The 3rd was a maison secondaire that was burnt out whilst waiting for another tender to arrive. The firemen quite rightly giving priority to the occupied properties ! The 3rd house needed extensive work, including new roof, floors, window and doors being replaced, thankfully paid for by their insurance.
yup, news story with no facts bar what people are thinking. As I said so far I have seen no story that hass been reported that has proven how dangerous these boxes are.
Technically you said latest Linky Information, no mention of News report. As I said though most of the others are just that news stories on how bad they are or shared from anti linky groups who avoid any information that may question their thinking.
but, did the cause ever become clear?
