Today I talked to a sparky from Auckland who reckoned that he could install a new mains cable in an old house and install a new switchboard with the POCO meter in an adjacent cabinet inside the house.
I thought that if you replace the mains cable and switchboard in a domestic dwelling then the POCO meter had to be in a seperate box which was accessible from outside the house. In short; switchboard inside, meter-box outside. This way the meter reader doesn't have to enter the house to read the meter.
This sparky was quite adamant that he'd done this "plenty of times" which lead me to question wether the indoor meter is allowed by some NZ POCOs.
Can anyone shed some light here ?
