Day night meter

kkennedy

can any can anyone tell me what my day rate is and what my night rate is to submit my readings 

Netexporter

Normally Rate 1 is daytime and Rate 4 (or 2 on many meters) is night consumption.

BarelySentientAI

Netexporter said:

Normally Rate 1 is daytime and Rate 4 (or 2 on many meters) is night consumption.

But it could quite easily be the other way around.

kkennedy said:

can any can anyone tell me what my day rate is and what my night rate is to submit my readings 

It sounds stupid - but check which one goes up in the day?

Scot_39

It's best to actually check - as a so called normal convention is not always correct. 

So much so that people end up being billed at wrong rates on mulirate tariffs when switch suppliers.  As some meters have and so some suppliers do expect a different order.

The meter you have for instance can actually iirc have upto 4 rates depending on its specific configuration. 

The same model was configurable as a 3 rate meter - day on normal circuits rate 1, night on normal circuits rate 2, restricted circuits for heating on rate 4 - was the setup at one uni halls flat according to a you tube video - heating was included in fees.



So whilst 1 maybe normal / rate 4 restricted / off peak. 

You really need to try to check which register is actually incrementing when and off what devices - e.g. with heavy off peak heating or hw use.

Is the now in the second picture an indication of active or just display - does the display show live as rate 1 but switch to show live as rate 4 at off peak ?

And then what times are your peak and off peak windows.


Only ref i could find to twinheat b appears to be a very region specific (13 nw and mersey - old manweb ? - looking at meter owner) and split off peak time periods - late  evening and afternoon - if the one listed on SP site.

https://www.scottishpower.co.uk/energy-efficiency/energy-efficiency-toolkit/electric-heating#

Suggests 9pm - 1 am, 12 noon - 3 pm