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Why would power flowing out of my house into the grid be a theft?
by teo_zero 6mo ago
Why would power flowing out of my house into the grid be a theft?
- razakel 6mo agoMaybe it looks like you're trying to trick the meter into running backwards?
- XorNot 6mo agoI assume the scam would be you rewire the breaker so the grid is on the apparent load side. It's not exactly hard to do, just dangerous.
- michaelt 6mo agoThe kind of meters we used to install 50 years ago would turn backwards if electricity flowed backwards. So if you spent a week with the meter connected normally, then you swapped the input and output cables around for a week, the meter would be back at zero. Free electricity! They used anti-tamper seals to make it more detectable, but there are ways around that sort of thing.