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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 508237" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Do this during the daytime.</p><p></p><p>With nothing else in the house turned on, turn each immersion heater on one at a time, and see if your electricity meter starts counting up. Only ONE of them should cause your electricity meter to count up in the daytime. The other one will appear dead.</p><p></p><p>The "dead" one is the off peak, and that one will only get energised at night on the cheap rate. This is the one you should leave on all the time and it will heat the tank overnight at the cheap rate. This should be the bottom element.</p><p></p><p>The other one that should be the top element is only there to give you a top up if you have used up all the hot water in the tank.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 508237, member: 6969"] Do this during the daytime. With nothing else in the house turned on, turn each immersion heater on one at a time, and see if your electricity meter starts counting up. Only ONE of them should cause your electricity meter to count up in the daytime. The other one will appear dead. The "dead" one is the off peak, and that one will only get energised at night on the cheap rate. This is the one you should leave on all the time and it will heat the tank overnight at the cheap rate. This should be the bottom element. The other one that should be the top element is only there to give you a top up if you have used up all the hot water in the tank. [/QUOTE]
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