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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    According to their website, "Usually you'll get 7 hours of off-peak electricity between 11pm and 8am. For example, 11pm - 6am or 1am - 8am." Well, my system comes active mid to late afternoon, like a booster and then again in the early hours. It used to do this before the meter change and...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Still not much the wiser but I get the idea. It was 161 back in Feb 2022 and only goes up slowly and is 277 currently. Thanks for your meter reading insight, as starting to make margin of sense now. EON have used the total figure as the night reading and the second (rate1) as the day reading...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Makes perfect sense to me but further puts the bill into question and what the hell they are doing with my heating, as it used to be heavily discounted. A right mess. The first figure they think is my night rate and the second my day rate.
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    As far as EON were concerned I do not have any storage heaters on the property, though when they looked at the back records they saw I did and they did not know where, or how my heating tariff had gone. Suffice to say EON have yet to do a damn thing to resolve the situation.
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Heating and night never used to be the same. The old heating had day and night active sessions that were made active by a signal down the wire I think. It was the active signal that stopped working I think. The nearest tariff today I guess would be the Econ 10. My old tariff name was "Standard...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Don't worry I'm with you on this. I asked the engineer if it was all OK and he said it'll do both. I don't recall asking him how to read the damn thing. All I do is press the yellow button repeatedly, and it rotates through 4 readings. I know not what they all mean but with a little testing...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Another reading taken at 5pm and the meters have increased since 2pm thus, 1, 1, 0 (day, heating, night).
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Well, there used to be two meters. The heating meter broke and Npower came to repair it and replaced both meters with this single one, which the engineer said would provide the four readings I had before - I specifically asked him about it - thus stems this whole debacle. EON can't fathom where...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    As of 2pm all three meters have increased by a further 1 unit each, and the ECH1L Heating Contactor is running warm. So if we assume 10am was ground zero, the meter read at 12:40 with an increase of 1,0,1 and at 2pm they increased an additional 1,1,1. My assumption based on tests is day...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    I'll attempt to monitor it. Between the reading this morning at 10am and now 12.40pm it has moved 1 unit on the day rate, 0 on the heating and 1 on the night rate. Our heating comes on late in the afternoon and during the early hours, I think.
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Well had 24 hours with the socket and heaters switched off as per the trips pictured. No difference and appears to be consuming 4 units in 24 hours. I do not know whether these 4 units get added to the first meter readings, which occurs when I switch the heating on, I do not know. My general...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Good point. I'll query this, though we are going on memory, as I'm sure they both said 400v. A pump on that socket had had an issue. Nothing tripped because as you lot have said it doesn't have an RCD.
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Not renting. Complicated. We will get it sorted, but due to this and that issue, none of us want to spend many £££ putting in oil heating when the actual ownership of the property is not yet fully vested in the person who pays that particular bill.
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Read the meter this morning, and the heating clocked up 5kwh (usually 4), and I switched the external socket off later yesterday afternoon, so it appears the socket isn't connected to the heating meter. The plot thickens. I'll know for sure tomorrow when the socket has been off for 24 hours...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Not particularly large. 3 bedroom, however on its own in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea why they needed to bring in a new line for the heaters, I assume because the single phase wasn't enough. Again it was done in 1993 by the looks of it. They fitted a 10kw shower, which may have had...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    Like you say the supplier didn't do it, a electrician did. If the socket is thus recording to a heavily discounted heating tariff then it would be an abuse, in my part really, I'm guessing, as it is really only for heating. Granted the law has nothing to do with it. However the socket has always...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    I check the same time each day. 10am but didn't switch it off until later yesterday so will not fully know until 10am tomorrow for an exact figure really. If it does account for my 4kwh reading then technically that would be good once EON sort out which reading and price but lawfully it's on...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    No, we are domestic though put some down against the business. My biils have the Gov' price limits. No EON are well confused and my attention to detail simply doesn't get them to investigate. God help those that don't fight against the oppression, as detailed in the Guardian article with EON and...
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    Electric storage heaters usage when switched off

    But that only occurred around Oct last year as far as I know, not April 2022. I appreciate that issue but I'd like to resolve the meter readings and be confident it is recording the usage correctly and my heating is correctly priced first. After that I'll send my bill to Putin 🤔 I'd also...
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