Time on pre-payment meter

Gerry1

If you're a long way from Droitwich (or Westerglen or Burghead) you may find that the R4 LW signal suffers from local interference which will prevent the E7 teleswitch receiver from setting its clock.

Tune a portable radio to 198kHz and put it next to the teleswitch box

If you can't hear R4 clearly without interference, switch off everything at the main switch(es) and try again. When you have a clear signal, leave it for a while before switching the supply back on, and with luck the time may be correct.

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Jami74 wrote: »

I'm not sure what timeswitched instead of teleswitched means. EDF have told me both by phone and email that the time on the meter makes no difference and the rate changes based on the real time not the meter time for everyone in the area electronically.

I'm not sure it has suddenly jumped forward, I have only started paying attention to it in the last few months. It's the same meter as when I moved in 13 years ago.

I'm not particularly paranoid. What meter info should I send you? I can send you a picture? I mostly want to know how to persuade EDF that I'm being charged at the wrong times.

Teleswitched times are tightly controlled electronically by a radio signal and are usual spot on to a minute or so.. If you were Radio Teleswitched you would have a large black box with the name printed on it.
The other two time switched controllers are usually out of time except for newer digital meters.
Older analogue 24 hour circular timers its pot luck where your 7 cheap hours are.The cheap rate could lie anywhere in the 24 hrs
.It has a back up spring which will cope with power cuts to keep the time correct but over the years its loses that then can drift a lot.
Older digital meters have built in electronic clocks which lose time also. It is not uncommon to see a Ampy Eco 7 meter whos internal clock has drifted several hours affecting the start time of the cheap rate