E7 meter time wrong

lohr500

To establish the times, follow the instructions I put in the later section of my reply. You need to establish if the switch over is driven by the internal clock on the meter or by some external signal. As it doesn't look like a smart meter and there is no obvious sign of a radio teleswitch, I bet it is driven off the internal meter clock.

Mobtr

Gerry1 said:

Mobtr said:

user58 said:

I have only just taken over the property and I have set it up on a E7 tariff believing thats what the original set up was, I do not know how it was previously being billed.

I have had no bills as yet.

I am not currently occupying the property so the only meter movement I have seen is on rate 2 (during the day) when I have been in there.

I do not have storage heaters only panel heaters but do have an electric heated water tank which is wired through a time clock.

I was also going to set washing machine to come on during the night.

It still doesn't answer when the night rate actually starts though, if at all.

I guess I will have to wait for a bill to see if there are seperate night and day units showing and whether they correspond to the units on the meter on R1 and R2 and see if it would be cheaper to be on a single rate tariff.

Then start setting the water to heat at different times during the night to work out what time the switch over actually is.

Ring your energy company, they will be able to tell you

Not a good idea.  They don't set the times.  If the agent in the call centre gets it wrong it could be an expensive mistake; what counts is what the meter actually does, not what others think it ought to be doing.

All you have to do is note when the 2 changes to a 1 and vice versa, remembering that it could have a two-hour peak rate period in the middle.

They might not set the times but they can tell the customer what they should be by looking at the SSC

Gerry1

Mobtr said:

Gerry1 said:

Mobtr said:

user58 said:

I have only just taken over the property and I have set it up on a E7 tariff believing thats what the original set up was, I do not know how it was previously being billed.

I have had no bills as yet.

I am not currently occupying the property so the only meter movement I have seen is on rate 2 (during the day) when I have been in there.

I do not have storage heaters only panel heaters but do have an electric heated water tank which is wired through a time clock.

I was also going to set washing machine to come on during the night.

It still doesn't answer when the night rate actually starts though, if at all.

I guess I will have to wait for a bill to see if there are seperate night and day units showing and whether they correspond to the units on the meter on R1 and R2 and see if it would be cheaper to be on a single rate tariff.

Then start setting the water to heat at different times during the night to work out what time the switch over actually is.

Ring your energy company, they will be able to tell you

Not a good idea.  They don't set the times.  If the agent in the call centre gets it wrong it could be an expensive mistake; what counts is what the meter actually does, not what others think it ought to be doing.

All you have to do is note when the 2 changes to a 1 and vice versa, remembering that it could have a two-hour peak rate period in the middle.

They might not set the times but they can tell the customer what they should be by looking at the SSC

And if they are not as they should be, it's the customer who takes the hit.

Mobtr

But why would it not be? The SSC determines what the timings are. Think they’re pretty standard throughout the industry with some companies having some unique to themselves 

QrizB

Mobtr said:

But why would it not be? The SSC determines what the timings are.

The SSC determines what the timings should be. The settings on the meter determine when it switches between rates, and for a non-smart meter like that one it's the meter that's in control.

Mobtr

QrizB said:

Mobtr said:

But why would it not be? The SSC determines what the timings are.

The SSC determines what the timings should be. The settings on the meter determine when it switches between rates, and for a non-smart meter like that one it's the meter that's in control.

Yes but if the op has at least an idea what it should be it’s easier to check to see when it changes over 

MWT

Trust but verify...

Never hurts to ask the supplier what it should be, then use that information to verify that the meter is doing what it should.

Takes a lot of the waiting around out the equation if you know where to start...