Question from Mary in Tallahassee
I have complained to my utility about smart meter on my house and asked for an analog device. The utility has responded by agreeing to disconnect the transmission of the meter and having a person come to read the meter. When I pressed for an analog device, the utility said that they are no longer available anywhere. They said that digital is used worldwide. I asked for a used one, but they said that they simply are unavailable and that our utility system is too big for analog. What literature can I send them on the digital issue? How can I get an analog device? I understand that in California they are agreeing to analog for people who refuse digital smart meters.
Is it enough to get the smart meter transmission suspension? I thought from reading this blog that the digital appliance in itself was a hazard even if its transmission is suspended.
Debra’s Answer
Readers? Any advice or experience?
What damage can be done with 5 meters on the dining room wall and 20 meters within 500 feet?
COMMENT FROM DEBRA:
Holy smoke! Do you live on the other side of the meter wall for an apartment building? I can’t assess the damage to your health, but your exposure would be enormous. Get a professional to help you with shielding or move. That just shouldn’t be allowed.
We just purchased a home that had a smart meter installed a few months ago. Our city is a pilot city for a “Smart Grid City”, which immediately freaked me out and made me want to run. However, after further research I have found that our Smart Meters are not wireless but rather use fiber optic cables and broadband over powerlines. Since these are wired technologies, does it negate concerns about the health effects caused by wireless Smart Meters?
COMMENT FROM DEBRA:
Hmmm. I haven’t heard about these. Off the top of my head I would say your wired smart meter would NOT have the same effects because the danger is from the wireless technology. However, you might try contacting one of the organizations warning consumers about smart meters and ask this question. Then let us know.
Very interesting posts, all! I’m in Wisconsin, and recently I moved from an apt. building that had 31 smart meters in the underground parking garage, very nearly under my unit…plus I had a neighbor next door and one overhead who had WiFi routers that ran 24/7. I lived in that building for 6 years. I have had MCS for over 10 years now, much better since doing the Gupta program, but did not understand up until a year ago that I was getting very electrohypersensitive…I had sleep issues, palpitations, loud tinnitus (louder than my usual tinnitus I’ve had for years), and other body symptoms…I did not know that the smart meters were there, nor did I know a thing about WiFi and its effects on people.
You might say I got a crash course on EHS about a year ago when my dentist showed me an article from one of his professional journals (he is a biological dentist), and it opened my eyes up wide! I set about giving my notice and did whatever I could to protect myself…I got an EMF meter to get readings on the airspace
in my apartment…I put aluminum foil on my windows in the bedroom and computer room. I got a QLink to wear, which I am not
sure is any help at all…I found blogs on the topic of EHS and talked to as many knowledgable people as I could. I got the Stetzerizer meter and filters for my apt. to stop the dirty electricity that was coming in on the wires. All this while being sick as a dog, and reactive so much of the time. I moved out on June 30th this year, in with my sister at her house in the country…the smart meter is located between the two bedrooms on the outer wall…my niece has shielded the meter for us with special fabric that we got
through Dave Stetzer when he came down to the house to measure the RF for us and make recommendations. He was very helpful!
There is an excellent blog by a man named Lloyd Burrell, in Australia, who was very EHS and now devotes his life to helping others. There are books out…there is Planet Thrive website with a lot of folks who are EHS or have healed from it already…there is hope, and that is what I am holding onto. By the way, I spoke with the head person for our smart meter installations here in my area, and she said that they will no longer put analog meters on, and that is that…if we remove the smart meter they will simply disconnect the power on us, and I know of one family in the area who have had this experience already. No recourse except to write to utility boards with complaints and protest. This has to get more
media attention…it is our hope. May be a class action suit in the works in Texas, as there are activists there who are heading in that direction…if that happens we can count on more action being taken to reverse this horrendous smart (dumb!) grid process…hope it isn’t too late.
Ruth
Hello,
I’ve got already “smartmeter” and talked to Talquin company to change it for analog…. nothing hapend…. What should I do to get exchage from Smart for analog, any advise, please.
Thank you, Laura
Read here about how you can purchase an analog meter: http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/10/09/buy-your-analog-meter-here/
It’s important to know that this is an issue we must fight, not for only our own health but for others who have no idea why they have new or exacerbated health problems after the smart meter was installed. We are flooding our homes, offices, and neighborhoods with microwave radiation that is not normal to our evolutionary experience. Talk to your neighbors and elected officials. I’ve given talks at health food stores and have been amazed at the range of health problems people are reporting after installation, and likewise their improvement after the meters are removed. Register your complaints in Florida with microwavechasm.org as well as smartmeterhelp.org. In Florida, a Public Service Commission hearing in Tallahassee in scheduled for the 20th of September. Microwave radiation emissions from cell towers, wifi, cell phones, and smart meters (which send the radiation into the ambient air of the home per cellphonetaskforce.org) is one of the top heealth issues of our time. Spread the word and get active!
Is a disactivated smart meter a health risk?
Is a disactivated smart meter a health risk?Yes! We have fought so called “non-transmitting” meters when PG&E and other utilities tried to push them as the ‘opt out’.
People have become very sick from these ‘digital’ meters- possibly because of the SMPS causing dirty electricity problems- see:
New Critical Problem with ‘Smart’ Meters: The Switching-Mode Power Supply (SMPS)
Don’t take anything but an analog!! Even with an analog, the grid has become ‘polluted’ with dirty electricity from others’ meters etc.
I recently was able to get my digital meter removed. I had been ill with skin rashes, dizziness, nausea, and sleep distruption for nine months. It took repeated phone calls. Being very polite, but insisting that it needed to be removed. Ask to speak with a supervisor and make it clear that it is for health reasons. The good news is that it has been three weeks and I am feeling much better at home. I am still reacting when I go out in public. I hope that will clear up too. Had I known that it was going to take so long to get the meter removed I would have bought an anolog meter on-line and hired an elctrician to replace it.
I live in a condominium complex. Unfortunately, I have 4 smart meters (for 4 units) installed on the outside wall of my bedroom. I am getting pretty worried reading about them and following this post. I think it might be even harder to get the electric company to unistall them/install analog ones only. If one is so dangerous, I can’t even imagine what 4 are doing to me and to my health, especially since I am in that bedroom at least 7-8 hours each night. I live in Connecticut. What might be the best way to go about it? How can I get all 4 of them switched to analog ones? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I don’t know what state you live in, but don’t give up – keep calling your electric company – tell them not to remove the old meter, put tape on it that says NO SMART METER – call superviors – do not talk to customer service – write and email to those in authority – insist on telephone numbers, email addresses and regular addresses and then go to work – THE MUST RESPOND AND COMPLY,, especially if you tell them it is a health issue. It worked for me and my neighbor. Send them articles and videos about the health issues. don’t give up…………
I am in Tallahassee, Florida. The smart meter has already been installed over my objections. That was a couple of years ago. Things are changing (see below).
Further research indicates that it is the meter itself that transmits pulsed radiation and creates dirty electricity in one’s house. Having the data transmission stopped is insufficient remediation.
On July 12, 2012, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine publically advised against exposure to smart meters.
On July 12, 2012, the Maine Supreme Cours ruled against smart meters and said that regulators had ignored their legal mandate to ensure the delivery of safe service.
Utility customers in Maine, Vermont, and California are being given the option of analog. Thank you for information on how to get my own analog meter.
Curious to know….wouldn’t having it disconnected and having a person come read it be the best option or am I missing something?
COMMENT FROM DEBRA:
Yes. But you can’t just disconnect the smart meter and have someone come and read “it”. You have to have an analog meter installed to read.
Here is an very comprehensive article about the health dangers from smart meters. More than forty international experts contributed to the article, a rebuttal to another article claiming smartmeters are safe.
Smart Meters: Correcting the Gross Misinformation
The following regarding how a smart meter in close proximity to occupied rooms can cause much higher cumulative RF exposures than cell towers or a cell phone was added to Smart Meters: Correcting the Gross Misinformation by Cindy Sage, MA, Co-Editor, BioInitiative Report, President, Sage Associates, Santa Barbara, California, USA
A wireless smart meter produces radiofrequency microwave radiation with two antennas in approximately the same frequency range (900 MHz to 2.4 GHz) as a typical cell tower. But, depending on how close it is to occupied space within a home, a smart meter can cause much higher RF exposures than cell towers commonly do. If a smart meter is located on a common wall with a bedroom or kitchen rather than a garage wall, for example, the RF exposure can be the same as being within 200 to 600 feet distance of a cell tower with multiple carriers. With both cell towers and smart meters, the entire body is immersed by microwaves that go out in all directions, which increases the risk of overexposure to many sensitive organs such as the eyes and testicles. With a cell phone, people are exposed to microwaves primarily in the head and neck (unless using speaker mode), and only when they use their device. In addition, near-field exposures are more unpredictable than far-field exposures because of the unstable wavelengths found very close to RF sources such as cell phones and smart meters.
Wireless smart meters typically produce atypical, relatively potent and very short pulsed RF/microwaves whose biological effects have never been fully tested. They emit these millisecond-long RF bursts on average 9,600 times a day with a maximum of 190,000 daily transmissions and a peak level emission two and a half times higher than the stated safety signal, as the California utility Pacific Gas & Electric recognized before that State’s Public Utilities Commission. Thus people in proximity to a smart meter are at risk of significantly greater aggregate of RF/microwave exposure than with a cell phone, not to mention the cumulative exposure received by people living near multiple meters mounted together, pole-mounted routers or utility collector meters using a third antenna to relay RF signals from 500 to 5,000 homes.
A technical study performed by Sage Associates in California indicates that RF levels from various scenarios depicting normal smart meter installation and operation may violate even the out-of-date US public safety standards which only consider acute thermal effects. This can happen when a person stands close to the meter to read the power consumption, or touches it, or shades the meter face with a hand to better read it. Emissions are also increased by reflective materials, such as stainless steel, other metals and mirrors, which can re-radiate stronger that the otherwise unaltered background. Microwaves are absorbed and dissipated by partially conductive materials, such as cement and special RF shielding paints and fabrics.