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    Faulty meter ?

    Hi, I recently bought a house with only electricity and no gas. The provider is British Gas. The thing is that the 6th digit in the meter is going up every second regardless of any appliance on or off. It went from 153623 to 155054 in about 14 minutes. ( The details on the meter : Telemeter...
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    ELECTRICAL METER INSTALLATION BY EVERSOURCE VS INDEPENDENT ELECTRICIAN

    HELLO, I PURCHASED MY HOME IS A TWO FAMILY HOME FROM 1940 WITH ONLY ONE METER, THE BOX HOLDS 200VOLTS. I STARTED REMODELING THE ATTIC AND SEEN THAT THE HOME HAD NO GROUND SO I ASK AN ELECTRICIAN TO ADD GROUND BUT ONLY TO THE FLOORS I WAS REMODELING. COME TO FIND OUT THAT THE REST OF THE...
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    Earth leakage meter.. Do I really need one?

    While waiting for a reasonably priced earth leakage clamp meter that will do both AC and DC leakage, I find myself asking the question which is the title of this post.And so tonight (been prompted by "Listers" Post) I thought "why not ask the forum? I have to date never not solved any faults to...
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    Smart meter

    Hi, I recently just bought a new build home from Cala homes. Regarding the handover electric meter reading, instead of taking the smart meter reading using the figures on the lcd screen, or following the British Gas website instructions for taking a smart meter reading "total import". Cala...
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    UK Water bonding in gas meter box

    Just had a boiler put in on a grant scheme. Water main earth bonding was connected in with the existing gas bonding's pipe clamp on the outlet pipework of the gas meter inside the meter box, then taken through the backplate of the gas meter box, then goes along behind the units to the water...
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    Rcd tripping with no switch on after smart meter installarion

    Hi I am.from uk I had a gas top up meter and a electric smart meter installation Thought to ask my energy supplier to fit me a gas smart meter aswell Their enginner came and said we will have to install the electric meter aswell so they will combine the smart thing on the display But after...
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    Standard meter in place of keycard

    Hi all have a customer moved house and there is a prepayment meter - signed up to new tariff and said they would fit today - didn’t arrives and when he called supplier scottish power said they dont fit standard meters - and where he lives (near town centre Dunfermline) smart meters can’t be...
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    UK Thoughts on Meter Tails Install?

    I’m rewiring a massive house and there’s a feed to a c.u in the old black rubber cable that needs replacing. I know that Meter tails follow the same guidelines as other domestic wiring, but i’m trying to avoid putting a rcd on supply end of the tails. The run is about 20meters long and going...
  9. timhoward

    Has anyone tried this cheap-as-chips 1ma clamp meter

    It claims to measure 1ma and is only £29.99. Fair reviews so far. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07P7TQR3B I've got a TEK775 somewhere which is refusing to be found at the moment...
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    ...and why would I want to do that ? Well, I'm faced with a real botch job of a consumer unit. Essentially this is a "new" consumer unit only put in a couple of years ago by a friend of the clients family who was apparently an electrician. However the unit they bought (a Niglon) had the main...
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    meter cabinet consumer unit

    Does a consumer unit for garden circuuts in an external meter cabinet need to be ip rated
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    Critique my Smart Meter Install Procedure

    Think I have the job they'll probably ask what I consider the correct procedure Biggest variable seems to me the condition of the installation that you're re-energizing, would there be a standard for this ? Check Condition of Meter Cabinet Check Basic Condition of installation- Polarity ,EFLI...
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    Help with import export utility meter

    Hi Guys, SSE are telling me my feed in tariff is for generation and deemed export. I have an R read and a T read on utility meter. The T read is Total import and the R is export. They have told me I have to pay for all electricity that runs through the meter on the T reading - this includes the...
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    UK Can you buy your own Supply meter?

    I have a 3 phase client with SolarPV who needs a 3 phase smart meter installed to be able to register for Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) payments. He tells me that 3 of the 'big 6' wont install a new meter - his existing one is not Smart. Can he BUY & install his own Smart Meter - subject to...
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    Tips for meter box wiring

    Hi guys I've a practical test soon for work as a smart meter installer Looking for any tips on working with 16/25 stranded singles .Could be a mix of pvc only and sheathed, 7 strand Im going to make a dummy board and practice moving things around and connecting to improve my profiency Any...
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    UK Second empty meter cabinet for a consumer unit to feed several garden circuits. Can a standard metal csu be fitt

    I have a customer who has installed a second empty meter cabinet for a consumer unit to feed several garden circuits. Can a standard metal csu be fitted in here, does it have to be in an ip65 enclosure also or can a ip65 plastic csu be used. I get csu has to be non combustible within a dwelling...
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    UK New smart meter, storage heaters now trip RCD

    I have just had a "smart" meter installed , and at night the electrics trips the RCD when the night storage radiator section comes on. I have had them out and they said installation was correct. I know a little about electrics (more over cautious and basic) but was suppressed when I looked at...
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    16mm meter tails

    Hi, gone to look at a board change job, it’s an old re-wirable fuse box less than 3m away from DNO and ran in 16mm tails, 10mm earth and no bonding to the incoming gas pipe and customer has no idea where the water comes in as the house has no stop cock. I will be putting a dual split rcd 100a...
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    Will any suppliers still fit a standard meter?

    I'm a homeowner. My flat came with a prepayment meter. I was due to get it changed by Green Network Energy. I even specifically chose them because they would fit a standard meter and not a smart meter... Anyway, Covid and a company going bust later I still have a prepayment meter. I'm with...
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    Consumer unit meter wiring

    I've had an electrician out to my house as I wanted him to remove the trunking that went down from the consumer unit down of the inside wall and then across the outside wall where it threaded through to the meter on the outside. The electrician said he could chase out the wall so wiring from...

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