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    Economy 7 units?

    Anyone got any for sale at a decent price??
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    Split load economy seven meters

    Can anybody point to a good site with info on these ? A customer that wants more info on why his economy seven has never worked ..... :lol::lol::lol:
    • daiplayer
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    • economy load meters split
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    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...
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    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...
    • DeanoZX7R
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    • economy economy 7 heaters rcd rcd tripping supply tested tripping
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    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...
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    Megaflow not heating up

    Hi, I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this problem I have encountered. I inspected a property which had no hot water. The system is a megaflow with two heating elements (one operating via Economy 7). Whilst onsite I turned on both heating elements, before setting the timer as...
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    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...
    • chriscole943
    • Thread
    • checked circuit economy economy 7 electricians' talk element heating immersion problem timer water
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    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...
  9. 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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    Need help, setting horstmann economy 7 - it's just not working

    Hi guys, First thank you for reading and helping out. Ok I got the above water timer, since last week it's just doesn't seem to be working. First off i set the time as per current time, i set the time as "summer." but it just doesn't seem to heating up the water and importantly it doesn't...
    • Xto
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    • boost doesn't economy economy 7 electrical work electricians' talk help horstmann light need help not working setting timer water working
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    economy 7 meter

    heres the situation, old bungalow, storage heaters, old re-wireable board. 3phase supply (yes, all 3 phases and neutral taken into the property, god knows why as it has never been anything other than a dwelling). they want the board upgrading, some bonding and replace all the storage heater...
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    Economy 7 meter radio transmitter fault?

    Hi there, I'm scratching my head on this one. Client has a wireless radio transmitter thing next to their meter which sends a signal at 2330 to the main meter (two dials - one for economy7/off peak one for on peak/normal) to turn on economy 7 and then off again at 0630. Side note: apparently...
    • ed-ectrician
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    • economy economy 7 electricians' talk fault immersion meter radio
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Live tests on Economy 7?

    It may be completely stupid but I've been wondering about this one for a while... Short of coming back at night, how do I get Ze or do the RCD testing for an economy 7 system?
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    So thats why the economy is failing

    Treasury minister David Guake reckons the reason the treasuary is broke is because all us self employed tradesmen are contributing to the black economy by taking "cash in hand" for work done, he reckons we are all at the fiddle and do not fully declare our earnings and the customer is "morally...
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    economy 7 removal

    I have a customer who wants rid of economy 7. here is a picture of the supply & meter + teleswitch can I go ahead and remove this myself ? or with permission of the DNO ? is that likely thanks
    • ianbrookes
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    • economy economy 7 electricians' talk removal
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Economy 7 timer

    Can someone explain how these differ from a normal manual timer? Is it just the fact that it has a boost incorporated aswell? Got to change one tomorrow but was wondering if fitting two manual ones would do the same thing? Ie timer on economy 7 hours and other used essentially as a boost...
    • highspark
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    • economy economy 7 electricians' talk timer
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    earth leakage in economy 2000 boilers

    Hi everyone I am new to this board and would firstly like to say hello to everyone and to keep up the good work, this place is like a hidden vault for knowledge. I've been asked a bit of a curveball question form my friend who is a building contractor. An installation that he completed 4...
    • BMelectrics
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    • earth earth leakage economy electricians' talk leakage
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Central Heating Systems
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    Using economy 7 heater

    I moved into a new flat yesterday and turned on the storage heater economy 7 switch next to it. The light came on at night so I assumed it was heating up. However, this morning it wasn't warm. I had the input and output on 3 but it was freezing still. Is there another switch that I need to...
    • Nmw10
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    • economy economy 7 electricians' talk heater using
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Economy 7 set up for an outbuilding

    Hey folks, Just thought I would run this one by before the weekend. I'm pretty happy with what I'm doing here but just wanted to check, as I've not carried out this particular alteration before. Client has a large outbuilding which amoung other things they use as a games room. It is fed by a...
    • jedisparks
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    • building contactor economy economy 7 electricians' talk outbuilding probably supply
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Apartment with Economy 9

    I have an apartment with this strange EDF tariff called Economy 9. It is basically 9 hours of off-peak electric that are spread throughout the day, unlike Economy 7 which has them all at night. There is a single Horstmann radio telemeter and a single CU. However the CU is wired up with two main...
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