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Electric storage heaters usage when switched off
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<blockquote data-quote="CharlesC" data-source="post: 548588" data-attributes="member: 37309"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Sparky booked to come in a day or so. I'll discuss cleaning up the system as well with him. He's the same one who we got to check our trips going off, and he detected a 400v reverse/earth flow (I don't know the technical term). We thus contacted the emergency power lot who found the fault and mentioned the earthing situation; however, he declared it functional as the reverse flow was earthing 400v through the ground, so he said technically, the earthing system was fully operational. The above-mentioned sparky has never done anything on our system, only gave a brief weekend review of our issue and didn't want to touch a 400v earth issue without the power company checking it first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CharlesC, post: 548588, member: 37309"] 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. Sparky booked to come in a day or so. I'll discuss cleaning up the system as well with him. He's the same one who we got to check our trips going off, and he detected a 400v reverse/earth flow (I don't know the technical term). We thus contacted the emergency power lot who found the fault and mentioned the earthing situation; however, he declared it functional as the reverse flow was earthing 400v through the ground, so he said technically, the earthing system was fully operational. The above-mentioned sparky has never done anything on our system, only gave a brief weekend review of our issue and didn't want to touch a 400v earth issue without the power company checking it first. [/QUOTE]
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