E-ON Ad with Electric Monitor

Daisymac_2

I was watching TV last night when an ad for E-On came on for this monitor/meter that you have in your home, (the ad showed it on someone's fireplace), it looks like a gadget about 4 inches high with an LED display and seemed to show how much electric you were using and the cost etc, just wondered if anyone knew anymore about it and are they any good? would like to get one, but are they a hassle to install ?. Many thanks

DGJsaver

Daisymac wrote: »

I was watching TV last night when an ad for E-On came on for this monitor/meter that you have in your home, (the ad showed it on someone's fireplace), it looks like a gadget about 4 inches high with an LED display and seemed to show how much electric you were using and the cost etc, just wondered if anyone knew anymore about it and are they any good? would like to get one, but are they a hassle to install ?. Many thanks

I wonder how much electric they use....

louietudor

i have an energy monitor i puchasaed form maplins (£40) - easy to install just put int he battery and connexct a sensor to your electric meter and your done - very good for monitiring how much you use but the appeal does not last long - havn't looked at mine for days!!

DGJsaver

Just a gimmick that e-on hope will encourage idiots to not check wether they actually are any good on price or not

markbloke

It's a smart-meter like the efergy. A small transmitter clips round the cable coming out of your electricity meter (needs a battery) and then that sends information on power use to the display elsewhere in the house. The display tells you how much power you're using, how much that costs you an hours, how much you've used in the last month etc. You don't need to be an electrician as it clips on the outside of the cable - there are no bare wires involved. The instructions tell you which wire to clip it on.
I've got the efergy and I've cut electricity use by about 25%. The E-On versions will probably start cropping up on ebay cheap soon as they're giveaways with some tariffs.

BexTech

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odowdchr

DGJsaver wrote: »

Just a gimmick that e-on hope will encourage idiots to not check wether they actually are any good on price or not

It's free on the capped rate, which is what people have been moving onto after checking their prices and predicting the rises.

Of course, when fuel prices drop 30% by this time next year we're all going to look like idiots

AFIforlife

odowdchr wrote: »

It's free on the capped rate, which is what people have been moving onto after checking their prices and predicting the rises.

Of course, when fuel prices drop 30% by this time next year we're all going to look like idiots

thats why Eon only offer capped prices so that when prices drop if your on a capped tariff with them your prices will drop as well