Hi I am a new member. My daughter has just received a whopping bill for over £5,000. They are out from 7 am to 7 pm. Have only usual items i.e. fridge/freezer,t.v./oven/DVD player/surveillance camera. On monitoring her meter from 5 pm last night to 12. noon (bearing in mind they were in bed...
Hello everyone,
I shall start that I had some works done yesterday involving wiring and somebody will come over to check but I wanted your advice.
Yesterday I turned on the oven, after a couple of minutes lights started flickering, then off, no electricity in the whole flat. Nada.Niet...
Just fitted a wireless electricity meter in my own house.. Scottish gas one.!!
You freak out when the mrs flicks the 240v kitchen spotslights on for the first time.!!
Need to conserve energy in these tight times !!
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My name is Will Sargeant and I am a 3rd year geography student at the University of Birmingham.
I am completing a dissertation on Solar Energy, and am looking to post a survey on the subject, for completion by forum users.
Please advise me if this will be possible
Many thanks,
Will...
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We need to move our electricity meter so its out of the way of some new stairs. The stairs will clear the main breaker however the meter needs to be moved also the backing board will need to be cut shorter.
Two questions:
Would I need to get Western Power to shorten the backing board for...
Heres a picture i took on my phone at the beggining of this year on a job, what does everyone think?
Their orange cables supply three flats and a common close meter.
We took one week to install metal trunking for these to run along up the stairs, to prevent damage or tampering :disappointed:
Imagine the scene....
A small private college, somewhere in London.
For most, but not all of the year, 4 double tables sit together in a cluster in the middle of the classroom (but are liable to be moved around).
8 teenage students are using laptops.
They want to be able to plug laptops in to...
hi we are in the process of replacing our kitchen and are thinking that we may be better to move the metre rather than having it in the back of a cupboard. the metre is on the inside of an outside wall so surely would only have to replace the cables and relocate outside in a suitable box? can i...
A factory wants to install machinary which will completely block access to the main cut out fuses and meters
I know BS7671 covers accessibility, however I just wondered if there were any other regs out there that this would violate.
Thanks
hello just wondered how radio teleswitches worked? is the signal supposed to come out at exactly the same time every night?
the reason i ask is because last night i never heard the usual clunk, so i tested the storage heaters and there was nothing and the night meter wasn't on but the daytime...
wonder if anyone can help. ive just purchased a 9bedroom house, and have approved planning for 5 flats, the house was commercial before (a womans refuge) there is a 3 phase board there but unfortunatley only a single phase supply. as i am going to require 4 new supplies in total, im wondering if...
hi, I would like to know some more about the DNO stuff that is buried under the streets.
cable sizes, how do they connect them, what kind of switchgear is used etc.
some good website? or a book to get for cheap on fleabay?
started doing domestic call outs for a company and the first house I went to was stealing electric for god knowes how long. They had simply bypassed the meter taking two tails from the main fuse straight to their board. Does this happen alot with these top up card meters because i was told that...
Hi friends,
I am in a rental property and the main electricity meter supplies two properties. An additional meter reads the consumption for the second property. However the main meter has on it 500Imp/KWH but the meter for the second property has on it 1000Imp/KWH. I am assuming I can't just...
Hello all,
Can anybody tell me how an electricity meter works? And also what would happen if instead of using the ground wire that comes from the pole you used as ground a wire driven to the ground in the house?
Thanks in advance,
Steven
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I am brand new to this forum and, not being electrically-minded,, I hope that you will bear with me.
We have a big and worrying problem regarding an electricity meter and I am hoping that someone here can give us some good advice. Apologies in advance for the long and rambling story but I...
Hey everyone,
I'm a first time user and needed some information about immersion heaters.
I have an immersion heater tank in my bathroom (fairly big) which supplies the whole flat and has two heating elements going in to it. They are both wired into switches with indicator lights on them, the...
hi i wanted to know in alternating current how does the current travel in a hvac system because in a house
it goes through say outlet then reverses back in the neutral how does that happen in a hvac system
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