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    UK Single meter suppplying 2 properties?

    New to the forum and first-time poster! Currently trying to confirm what the top meter (circled) in the photos supplies? To me, it seems the meter tails enter the connector block and then there are two outputs coming from the block - one to the top isolation switch and one to the lower...
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    Electrical meter

    Hi is there a regulation on electrical meters being fixed directly to a brick wall and not on a fire retardant board thanks
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    UK Is this electricity meter wired correctly?

    Hello, Last year we started getting really high readings over the colder months (we'd expected this but not 5x the amount of electricity being used) We contacted a family friend who was an engineer who said that our meter is incorrectly wired up. We then spoke to our energy provider with this...
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    Can One Electrical Meter Box Feed a Second Board?

    Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well in these trying times. I'm planning an extension to my house, and I'm looking to have a second consumer board fitted inside the extension. I'm hoping I can feed this new board from the meter box and not as a sub-board from the original consumer unit...
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    Wanted Actaris 9000 KBD Prepayment Meter

    Hi, I am trying to get hold of an Actaris 9000 KBD Prepayment Meter (preferably brand new). I contacted Itron and they no longer manufacture these meters but there are still a load around apparently. I am based in the United Kingdom, England. I have attached a photo of the meter for...
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    What’s happened to my electric meter?

    Hi all after some advice with my meter reading. Every month I have to send my readings to octopus which I’ve been doing for months no issue. However gone to do it today and the reading looks like it’s started again. Gone from 00732 to 0002. Also when pressing the “A” button it doesn’t go to...
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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...
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  15. 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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