Smart Meter Manual / Instructions

QrizB

That's a shame. Can you access the consumer unit, even if you can't get a photo?

Do you have a non-contact voltage tester ("volt pen", something like this) or similar? It's not something I would normally take on holiday with me but I have to ask!

Reed_Richards

QrizB said:

I've not read the whole manual to see what a constant light means; on my old UK meter it meant that my solar panels were exporting power, but that doesn't really match your situation.

If a solid light means no import then it exactly matches the OP's situation.    

greyteam1959

QrizB said:

That's a shame. Can you access the consumer unit, even if you can't get a photo?

Do you have a non-contact voltage tester ("volt pen", something like this) or similar? It's not something I would normally take on holiday with me but I have to ask!

The electric meter & consumer unit are in Spain.
I am in the UK !!

MWT

Do you have a contracted power limit on your tariff?

If whoever is there has accidentally turned on too many high power devices at the same time the meter cuts you off until you phone the energy company to get reset I believe?

Reed_Richards

In the old days electricity meters were analogue with rotating dials and a rotating wheel that measured the smallest increments of electricity usage.  This made it really easy to tell if no power was being used or if power was being used at a very low rate.  When digital meters came in it became much harder to tell when no power, or very small amounts, was being used because there weren't enough digits.  So a convention was adopted that the light that flashed to indicate rate of power use would come on continuously if power usage dropped below some minimum level.  This is counter-intuitive because the faster the light flashes the more power is being used but nonetheless many meters did this.  I don't know for sure that his convention was retained for smart meters but it would certainly be a useful feature to have a way of indication that no power is being drawn.