{"id":394,"date":"2023-02-21T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tekkiepix.co.uk\/?page_id=394"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:29:10","slug":"wam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tekkiepix.co.uk\/?page_id=394","title":{"rendered":"WAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1560px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><i>WAM and Wait A Moment!<\/i>. This doesn&#8217;t feel or smell entirely right.  <\/p>\n<p>Here you will find some stories, with an electronics theme, researched and (mostly) written for British publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronpublishing.coml Electronics \u2013 Practical Electronics hobby constructor ...https:\/\/www.electronpublishing.com\">Practical Electronics <\/a>and re-purposed here with kind permisssion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: var(--awb-bg-color);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tekkiepix.co.uk\/?page_id=333\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Smartmeters<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--awb-text-color); font-family: var(--awb-text-font-family); font-size: var(--awb-font-size); font-style: var(--awb-text-font-style); font-weight: var(--awb-text-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--awb-letter-spacing); text-align: var(--awb-content-alignment); text-transform: var(--awb-text-transform); background-color: var(--awb-bg-color);\">those electronic gismos that the gas and electric companies are surprisingly keen to fit in your home for free. 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They also let the supply company turn off your supply, or convert it to more expensive pay-as-you-go use, all at the flick of a switch from a warm, comfy office in the power company HQ.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-394","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WAM - Tekkiepix Sidelines<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/tekkiepix.co.uk\/?page_id=394\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WAM - 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