Hi all. Welcome some advice. I am extending house and am moving the electricity meter to the an external wall which happens to be adjacent to a cul-de-sac i.e. path. Aside from being quoted £650 to move the cable and meter Scottish Power have now changed their mind to have the meter facing...
I am hoping that someone can help me get to the bottom of a perplexing problem that is affecting my daughters home. I monitor her energy consumption and have done so since july 2011. In the period july 11 to oct 12 her electricity consumption has averaged 9.64kwh per day. In the period Oct 12 to...
Catching up on Breaking Bad season 5 (part I) on DVD box set - don't have Netflix - and had to admire Walter's ingenious use of electricity to escape the plastic hand-cuffs.
Is that possible??
Okay, so it's only 110V (this being the US), but can you really melt plastic against you skin??
A client has a 50kW on their roof, they are vacating the building and are renting out the space. They would like to charge the new tenant for using the generated electricity so need a way of measuring export so they know how much the tenant has used. The tenant will still keep their normal...
Hi all,
Does anyone know a rough estimate on how much more it costs to have a key meter compared to a standard meter?
Obviously it varies depending on the usage but a rough idea on whether its a lot higher or only slightly would be good,
Thanks
Hello, I don't know if anybody can give me some advice but if you could it would be very much appreciated! I am having an extension built on a house I bought last year. It has turned out that the electricity board about 40 years ago looped the mains electricity for my neighbour and a number of...
I have monitored my electricity usage for a couple of years now and it has enabled me to save electricity several times by being able to detect unusual usage patterns.
Now I’m about to get a solar PV system installed, and when that happens I will be in the dark as to how much electricity I’m...
I came across an electricity meter in a block of flats where the supplier's side had a live and neutral cable in, but the side connecting to the consumer unit only had the live coming out of it - the neutral supplying it was henly blocked to another neutral - is this right/safe? What is the...
Can anyone tell me what the law is in regards to signing off an electricity certificate.
Does the person signing off the work and signing the appropriate certificate have to be associated with one of the electrical authorities e.g. NICEIC or can they be just a competent electrician not...
Hi guys
Ive been to a couple of customers houses who have a pv system installed, and who are both complaining that there bills don't go down. Ive checked out their systems and they all seem like they are performing well, but what bugs me is there incoming electricity meter is the one with dials...
after seeing the program on metal thieves the other day, i figured i'd upload a few images to highlight how dangerous electricity can be.
i'm sure we've all had a little tickle off a live circuit before, and we've all been coerced into holding both probes on the megger whilst one of the lads...
i am not sure if anybody will be able to help me or not, i currently have very high electricity bills, i burn between 30-48 units a day, i do not have any boilers or heaters, my heating and hot water comes from a communion boiler so therefor these are included in with my weekly rent, i have...
hi guys,
was in an office on the weekend, being a new firm we only have poxy metal step ladders. While we were changing fluorescent lamps i got a few static shocks off the metal of the light fittings. The whole fitting was earthed, so i was thinking why this was happening, is this common? I'm...
A girl I konw is working in Africa in quite a remote region. She sent me a message on facebook asking this:
a question for you electricity wise one.
Why, when we have power outages, does the electricity work from some plugs in the office? Our electricity has gone out and the fan is still...
I have moved into a property and it has a sangamo schlumberger SPA 02 meter, I have noticed the red pulse light (800 pulses per kWh) does not pulse it just stays on does anybody know why this would be?
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Hi everyone,
Is it possible to get an estimate on how much electricity a solar panel is going to generate throughout a year if I have the following information:
-basic product description: dimensions (e.g. 55x25 inches) and power (e.g. 100W), which is how solar panels are advertised on...
I'm not usually one for starting petitions but it seemed a real shame to close this place.
Christchurch's Museum of Electricity closes its doors (From Bournemouth Echo)
It was a museum to the history of electricity, run and funded by Southern Electric from an old Edwardian power station...
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