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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Jimbo on August 18, 2005, 19:04:29
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Ok, nothing to with Land Rover - but someone might have an answer !
My Parents use LPG for heating/cooking etc, and have a largish tank in the garden. Calor do this thing where they fit a telemetry sender on the top of the tank, fit a small fag-packet modem by the phone, and every night the modem dials up Calor (freephone) and gives the level of gas left in the tank - sort of like an automated meter reader.
So far, so good.........but (like a lot of us), my old man had got ADSL, the engineer (I'll call him that for now) says 'no problem, done loads of these', and connected the Calor modem into the main phone socket - but on the line side of the ADSL filter. He couldn't get the modem to work, and said that they'd get a techy out, he leaves. Dad goes to play on the computer, and ooops, no ADSL connection - calls me (free tech support), I advise to remove the Calor modem, everything springs back into life.
My question is this:
Does any MC'er have this Calor telemetry thing working on an ADSL enabled line - and does it work ?
Ta,
Jim
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We have a little guage on ours and we make the phone call when it gets low ;-)
Unless the Calor connection has a microfilter in it, then it is going to mess up the ADSL. Should be on the 'consumer' side of it otherwise.
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Tim,
I managed to blag a 'work trip' to the Olds area yesterday, and re-instated the Calor modem on the correct (consumer) side of the filter - but the Calor help desk were not answering, and the Old Man had his office in bits so I couldn't see if the ADSL worked.
Going by the fact that the Olds had to have Calors emergency engineers out to fix four leaks on the new pipework (they had the tank moved a week ago) two days after all this was done - I suspect that this modem saga will drag on for a few more months............
Jim
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Mmm.
'Allegedly' some naughty people have a supply nozzle & regulating valve fitted & fill their vehicles up with LPG from the house tank.
How shocking!
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Mmm.
'Allegedly' some naughty people have a supply nozzle & regulating valve fitted & fill their vehicles up with LPG from the house tank.
How shocking!
What you want is one of these: http://www.myphill.com/
Shame they don't supply them in the UK.
Of cause you would have to pay fuel duty. :wink:
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But they do in France :wink: