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  1. albi

    Economy 7

    Has any one come across economy 7 meter with only 1 set of meter tails feeding a CU. At the CU they have fitted a time clock on the storage heater circuits but the rest of the circuits are feed normally. Any thoughts are welcome as I can not see how this would work, as every one I have worked on...
  2. N

    Wot No Economy 7

    What in your esteemed experiences are the *typical* reasons why a DNO's Economy 7 timeswitch might not be switching? The witching hour comes and goes, others adjacent get their lovely lovely cheap leccy, yet on the offending installation the incoming tails on the Economy 7 board remain...
  3. i=p/u

    Electric heaters to replace 0ld economy 7 muc.

    Have a homer to replace old Eco 7 heaters , do you guys know any suitable replacements , they want te be instant heat so don't know weather blow heaters will be two much of a dry heat. we used new dimplex ones in a bus station recently which were I think 1.5kw which wansnt bad for the size and...
  4. T

    Economy 7 10mm tail

    My head is hurting form trying to work out economy 7! I have a photo of an installation I'm going to do some work on, but annoyingly I can't seem to attach it. There are 2 live and 2 neutrals coming from the supplier's cut out...one live goes to regular meter, other to economy 7 meter. A live...
  5. M

    Horstmann quartz economy 7 water heater problems

    Hi all, am new here. Would like some advice before contacting an electrician (again) We have an e7 meter, we have had a new immerser fitted and a new electricity meter. The off peak was showing constantly and the only way to put boost on was to change the time to about 5am then change it back...
  6. C

    Economy 7 question

    Evening all. I have been asked to price some flats for an architect. Have sat down with him and the client to go through drawings etc. The flats are going to be on economy 7 tariff with storage heaters and immersion for hot water. Not to familiar with economy 7 meters but the architect has told...
  7. F

    Immersion heater and Economy 7 switches getting hot

    I have 2 switches that control my hot water, one is an Economy 7 switch the other a standard immersion heater switch. I have recently noticed that both of these switches become really hot to the touch if they are left on for about half an hour. I had noticed them become slighly warm before...
  8. H

    Economy 7 - Tariff Details and Specification

    Hi all, apologies for not contributing recently. I have to qualify this by saying that this is more of a thought exercise as I'm having a few issues trying to visualise what is in effect, but I'll start with a question. A friend of mine is on an E7 tariff w/ the supply to the FCU's feeding the...
  9. infinity

    Immersun & Economy 7

    Has any one installed an immersun alongside an economy 7 and found a way to tie the two in together? We installed one saturday, well 3 in the same street with similar setups. All on economy 7 with an immersion midway up the tank. Obviously when the E7 is on it will heat the water up...
  10. D

    Replacing 2 DBs with one... Economy 7...

    Hi chaps, Been thinking of upgrading one of my DBs (both 15th Ed), partly for safety and to make the place more attractive to a buyer, partly to use as an assessment piece for ELECSA. Currently got an economy 7 supply and 2 DBs, one 4-way for the immersion and 3 storage heaters, the other...
  11. N

    Proving dead & safe iso on Economy 7

    Interested to hear people's thoughts on best practice for proving dead and achieving safe isolation on an Economy 7 board - the problem being, (unless you work 0000-0700 GMT :wink5:) the Economy 7 supply is unenergised. So 'proving' your means of isolation achieves dead actually proves nothing...
  12. E

    Economy 7 sangamo controls

    Evening all, came across this tonight. 1 flex enters timer from economy 7 spur and 2 flex come out and connect to one immersion heater. The immersion heater has 2 stats inside... Never seen anything like it. Im looking to replace timer but don't want to get the wrong one. has anyone come...
  13. E

    Sangammo quartz economy 7 timer

    Evening all, Went to a job tonight and had a look at one of these economy 7!timers. Never seen anything like it. Then 2 cable came out of the timer an went into ONE immersion element. Opened the element and found it had two stats
  14. M

    Economy 7 units?

    Anyone got any for sale at a decent price??
  15. E

    Economy 7 questions

    Hi there I am new to this forum and joined to find out what is going on with my E7. Last Wednesday the E7 came on during the day when it should only come on at 22:30 and goes off at 07:30. I switched it of at the switch in the boiler/immertion heater cupboard and then switched it on manually...
  16. D

    Economy 7 RCD tripping.

    Hi Guys, An elderly customer has just moved into her new flat, unfortunately her heating on E7 doesn't work. The E7 dist board RCD is tripping (probably as it kicks in). She has two boards, one normal and one E7. The E7 board is feeding three night storage heaters and an immersion heater. All...
  17. P

    combining economy 7 and 24hr supply

    Hi guys customer has an electric AGA currently supplied on radial from consumer unit with single supply. he intends to get economy 7 and wishes to run the cooker on this supply when available. i cannot run an additional cable. i am looking for an automatic relay switch (or similar) which would...
  18. C

    Economy 7 immersion heating problem

    Hi, attended a job today where the client said that the E7 element isn't working, no hot water in the mornings. I turned off the daytime element and I put a plug on the flex of the nightime element, plugged it in and I could hear element start to heat. Left it on to see if it would click off...
  19. H

    Economy 7 circuits

    Good Evening All. First question on site so apologies for bad formatting. Am interested to know best work around for testing the off peak side of a split load board fed by a teleswitch meter running economy 7 storage heaters. Able to perform dead tests but no power until after midnight so cannot...
  20. Doomed

    economy 7

    doing a board change soon where they still have economy 7, my boss reckons that this board will not need RCD protection, I think he is an old fart that should keep up with the regs and stop interfering. Comments please.

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