New Electricity Meter

Jumping_jack_2 · 23 January 2012 at 1:27PM

Hello Everyone,
I am new here so please let me know if anyone encountered same problem as me and what is the solution?
On Friday EDF had changed my old Elec. Meter and I found that my consumption has gone up since they installed the new meter. They siad they will send someone to check the meter. If they found nothing wrong with a meter what do I do? How do I know they have caliberated the meter correctly? Is there a independent caliberation body in this country to monotor all the service provders? Thank you

HappyMJ · 23 January 2012 at 1:35PM

If they find nothing wrong with the meter then you have to pay for the test. You can do your own test. You need to turn everything off in the house and find something with a fixed resistive load such as a 2kw heater. You need a stopwatch to time the differences between each flash. Press start then lap every time you see a flash. If your heater is 2kw then you should have exactly 1.8 seconds between each flash. It could vary by 0.1 seconds and it will be close enough. You could also count the number of flashes in exactly 3 minutes. It should be 100. That could vary by a couple and still be within tolerances.