explaining figures on my prepayment meter

eatee

I've got a prepayment meter with E-on. In order to keep costs down i'm trying to figure out what rates i'm paying and then what my appliances are consuming.

The meter has bamboozled me though; it sometimes displays the exact same fields with different numbers inside, on each display. You press a button to cycle through the displays. They are as follows:

A: Current money on meter.
[*/*] <- this is as near as I can come to illustrating it, it doesn't say 'B' as one would expect: asys "8p per kwh"
C: Shows current time, says "Rate 1".
Shows date.
E: Total accepted money, I think (does this get reset at any point, like on an electrician visit?)
F: charge/week, but it says £2 !?
G: says "23841.98 kwh"
H: Says "10314.29 kwh"
I: says "18.3p per kwh" contradicting the 8p shown earlier
J: says "13527.73 kwh" and then "Rate 2" -- so which is it, rate 1 or rate 2?
K: 6.38p per kwh (Yet another different figure), then "Rate 2".

If anyone can help me interpret all this that'd be great.

macman

The Rate 2 will be the Economy 7 cheap rate. Rate 1 will be your (expensive) day rate.
You are presumably on an E7 tariff?

stephga23

A is current credit on the meter
B will only show if you owe something to get back into credit ( used emergency etc) it will show what you need to charge to get back into credit
C is the the time
D is the date
E is the total credit accepted (won't get reset unless engineer is requested to do so)
F is the charge per week which is sometimes for debt and standing charge or one or the other
G is the total units used ( add H and J together)
H is day units meter reading
I is day units pence per unit
J is total night units meter reading
K night units pence per unit


Other screens shown if key is inserted will be and this is a guess as I am not 100 percent sure on the order they are shown

R total debt
S debt recovery rate
T can't remember

I do hope that helps you though?

SwanJon

As above, only thing I can think to add is the [*/*] screen is a test - from my experience all the display is it up (something like 8.8.8.8.8).
Some suppliers remove the standing charge and use the day/night screens for tier1/2.

Former_E.ON_Company_Representative:_Malc

Hi eatee

Already some great advice on here. Thanks guys.

Just thought I would mention our website. We've a section on there dedicated to helping customers understand prepayment meters.

It's under 'Existing Customers' and is approx half way down the left hand menu.

Hope this helps eatee. Give me a shout if you need any more info as happy to help.

Malc