Economy 7 Day and Night timeframes

jonnywright

When you have an economy 7 meter, are the day/night timeframes? Are they seylt by the provider or area? Or are they a standard timeframe for everyone, and if so can anyone tell me what they are?

Thanks

Richie-from-the-Boro

By provider or more accurately by the timings originally set by the old geographic area regional leccy boards before they were privatised. They vary by about an hour either way across these islands. Unless you think your clocks are of the very old type [pre digital] or wildly wrong I would not concern yourself with the precise [to the minute] timings.

[Deleted User]

They vary, in South Yorkshire the times are 1.30 am to 8.30 am in BST dropping back an hour to 12.30 to 7.30 in GMT. Radio Teleswitch and digital meters with their built in timers are mostly accurate but the circular analogue 24 hour timerswitches the 7 cheap rate hours could actually be anywhere within the 24hrs. Refer to the pointer at bottom to see what time it thinks it is and a little window in the meter pointing to either low or normal. Its quite important knowing exactly the switchover times as things like electric showers and dryers etc need to be in the cheap rate otherwise you are trebling the costs almost

Bark01

They are currently set by your local meter operator, but your supplier should be able to tell you the times that are relevant to you. They will need to look up your SSC and TPR details.

The timings can vary by house to house. It can be a solid 7 hours or split into separate blocks. On top of that each meter has an inbuilt randomisation that can shift times forward and back. This is a constant so if you meter starts 10 minutes early it will always be 10 minutes early, but your next door neighbours may always be 10 minutes later and you always get your 7 hours .

RMR guidelines made reference to suppliers providing accurate register timing information so you should start to see more detailed timing information being supplied to consumers.

When SMART meters roll out the suppliers will be able to set the time zones. So they will be able to either provide a uniform set of timings for all customers or may even offer customers the option to change their timings.

SwanJon

As above, but this thread may help:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=35882031&postcount=13