Is my meter an RTS meter?

LL123LL

@MBR1 I was facing the same issue as you with Octopus (albeit my meter was nowhere near as old as yours) but mine was also not an RTS and they insisted for months that it was. I sent them the meter specification document and loads of photos and they still insisted. Eventually I escalated it as a formal complaint and said they were wasting my time as well as their own when they should be focusing on people who actually have RTS meters, just as @Phones4Chris has said above. I told them to escalate it to a fully trained meter engineer who actually knew how to identify meters (I used those words) and about a week later they immediately came back all apologetic and conceded that it was not RTS after all. Whole thing was a massive time drain and hassle which went on for about a year but I did get there in the end. 

Phones4Chris

@MBR1 Update on meter certification - surprisingly your meter has a 35year certified life BUT I can't see anything in your photo that positively indicates when it was installed/made. The info may be on the plate that you've redacted.

matelodave

The supplier can change the meter whenever he feels like it so long as its within the certification period, so even if its theoretically got another five years to go he can still change it if it suits his business.

ChrisM78

I'm another one who's unsure if I have a RTS meter. I think it's safe to say that it's probably outside of the certification period... 

QrizB

@ChrisM78 where do those two thinner cables go? I'm guessing an external contactor?

Phones4Chris

@ChrisM78 That meter has a 15yr certified life, so you are correct, it's outside its certification period.

Ildhund

Phones4Chris said:

@ChrisM78 That meter has a 15yr certified life, ...

Are you sure about that? I couldn't find that particular model in Schedule 4, only the version without the 'E'. Other 'E' varieties have 20 years. It's a bit academic, sure, because the meter's long past its 'best before' date anyway.

ChrisM78

QrizB said:

@ChrisM78 where do those two thinner cables go? I'm guessing an external contactor?

Hope this helps. I really am clueless with all this stuff!

QrizB

Yes, it says "heating contactor" on the cover

Phones4Chris

Ildhund said:

Phones4Chris said:

@ChrisM78 That meter has a 15yr certified life, ...

Are you sure about that? I couldn't find that particular model in Schedule 4, only the version without the 'E'. Other 'E' varieties have 20 years. It's a bit academic, sure, because the meter's long past its 'best before' date anyway.

That may or may not be the case, whichever, it'll be out of certified life.
In my experience where meters have variants that have an "E" (or some other letter) as well as models that haven't a "some other letter" variant, when full data has been available on those meters (I can't track down any for the above mentioned meter) then I've found the listing for the "non-E" variant also implies/includes the "E" variant unless actually listed separately. I didn't spot any Ampy/L+G models that had a separate listing either with or without letter variants.