Blimey check this out,
She wants to get rid of the old rewireable fuses and have a nice new board.She says money no object as its only going to go to the home to look after her husband !!!
She's about 90 so i think i better get a deposit before she spends it all.
The whole house has 8 storage...
Roger
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A 100a single phase Contactor(HR55) on a 24 hour timer supplying 4 E7 storage heaters (55amp max)
When contactor is energised it regularly has a varying pitched whine(vibration)
This changes when i turn off the heaters one by one or wiggles the contactor/cables.
It does it on a new generic...
salisbury spark
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Hi everyone
My friend has this E7 set up and TBH I don't know how it works switching wise.
It has two 17th ed. CU's recently installed. One for daytime and one for night time. I thought E7 has one CU and just switches over everything, so what's going on here please with the two CU's.
Here is...
Hi there,
Thanks in advance for you help, I hope this is not a problem which has been brough up previously, I have had a look but can't see any.
On Christmas Eve on leaving my flat for a few days, rightly or wrongly I turned off the heating etc at the RCD. On returning to the flat, turned...
mattytwig
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A pre 2008 economy 7 installation has recently recieved single rcd consumer units. There are 7 circuits in total being used on the boards.
Now for the problem, Prior to the install well :( there were no problems, however we have been called in on a number of occasions, because despite 4 other...
Evening chaps, I've had a good look through previous posts but couldn't find a definitive answer,
Is there a recommended way of doing all the live tests on an economy 7 board? I didn't see an over ride btw.
Benny_Boy
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Hello,
I'm not an electrician but have been surfing the internet looking for some help with a problem I have and came across this site.
I have an economy 7 heating system about 20 years old controlled by a panel which is set by a digital clock you can programme to come on and off.
However...
Antony2308
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Hi,
I have a dual immersion boiler, with one immersion operating on E7. I no longer wish to use E7 after many problems with wrong switching times and so on and feeling I am being conned into paying high day rates in exchange for a small amount of cheaper night electric. I want to make use of...
bertle
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Lads
General question, I have Econ 7 and the current board is intergrated with day rate, Im considering upgrading my board for my NICEIC assesment.
Can I get say a 14 way board and put 2 100A Main Swith and then split the board for day rate and night rate using RCBO's??
Or do you have...
Having a few problems with my water heater in my flat. Basically when my feed switches over at night it seems as though the circuit isnt switching. I had a look in my circuit breaker box in my house and found this thing which i think is where the problem is.
There seems to be 3 positions on...
mike2k111
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Hey guys
Any electricians out there? lol I have economy 7 electricity in my flat and I know that this means it runs off two tariffs - a cheap night time rate and the normal day rate. My question however relates to how it knows when to switch between the two. I have a timer clock in the meter...
Hi
I have just installed an RCD to an exixting E7 install. Does any one know if there is a test facilty in order to test the Ze and the RCD? Otherwise I gotta come back at 1130pm!!
Thx in advance
As a newly qualified sparky friends and family are asking me to do all sorts of little jobs. And as for my mother she would like me to install two extra storage heaters she has been given to the downstairs floor of her house. The question is how are these normally wired in and is there anything...
Morning all,
can someone tell me if it is possible to force on an economy 7 supply for storage heaters?
I am going to look at a heater for someone that they say isn't working but then it occured to me that there will be no supply to it in the day when I am there.
I am not familiar with...
Hi Everyone, I am new on here,
I have a customer who has a property heated by Economy 7. They work away 5 days a week and are only there at weekends. They do not want to heat the property fully when they are not living there.
Is there a 7 day programmable timer that can be installed to...
Hi chaps, now dont panic, but I am going to ask a question instead of answering one:eek:
went to look at a job this morning
they had ecenomy 7 storage heaters which they have ripped out, i have a few jobs to do, which includes a CU change
current set up is (its on a TT system)
from meter...
Shakey
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