This only works if people comply. If they ever tried to remote shutdown my A/C I would simply bypass the electronics. The efficiency of my hack may suck, but a compressor and condenser fan are not hard to operate manually. I'd probably just find a happy medium for the thermal expansion valve and use it like a static capillary tube to start. Instructions on how to bypass the nonsense would quickly spread, and become ever more sophisticated as people just replaced the smart electronics with homegrown dumb electronics.
No, the only way they can control this is smart meters that shut off the power completely.
And then we get into bypassing the electric meter...which is done all the time in 3rd world countries, and I suspect would become commonplace in the US if they started to get draconian about it. After all, crimes don't matter any more. So really rolling blackouts are the only solution. And we've already got those today.
Thank you for this. I like to know there are people who can still do things like this. I forced them to replace the meter and pay $25 dollars per month for the reading. They did.
This only works if people comply. If they ever tried to remote shutdown my A/C I would simply bypass the electronics. The efficiency of my hack may suck, but a compressor and condenser fan are not hard to operate manually. I'd probably just find a happy medium for the thermal expansion valve and use it like a static capillary tube to start. Instructions on how to bypass the nonsense would quickly spread, and become ever more sophisticated as people just replaced the smart electronics with homegrown dumb electronics.
No, the only way they can control this is smart meters that shut off the power completely.
And then we get into bypassing the electric meter...which is done all the time in 3rd world countries, and I suspect would become commonplace in the US if they started to get draconian about it. After all, crimes don't matter any more. So really rolling blackouts are the only solution. And we've already got those today.
Thank you for this. I like to know there are people who can still do things like this. I forced them to replace the meter and pay $25 dollars per month for the reading. They did.