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Off-peak circuit not working - what next?
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<blockquote data-quote="JodieS" data-source="post: 551956" data-attributes="member: 37689"><p>Hi folks,</p><p></p><p>New here so hopefully posting in the right place.</p><p></p><p>To cut a long story short, I am on Economy 7 and have two separate circuits wired into my meter which serve my flat - peak and off-peak. The only things connected to the off-peak circuit are two storage heaters and my immersion hot water tank. All three stopped working suddenly on Friday night (all other electrics are working fine). Everything looks normal externally and nothing has tripped in my consumer unit.</p><p></p><p>First thought was the meter time-switch could be faulty, so my energy provider sent out an engineer yesterday. He replaced my 20-year old meter with a new smart meter. I was hoping to wake up to a toasty warm home this morning... nope. The heaters are stone cold.</p><p></p><p>So I guess the problem must be to with the wiring in the off-peak circuit - either it's not receiving the message from the meter to tell it to come on at night, or something has gone wrong between the main switch and my flat. All of the meters and associated main switches are in a communal cupboard on the ground floor. Nobody else is having issues.</p><p></p><p>I will get an electrician to come out - but how can they test the problem outside of the off-peak hours? As there isn't supposed to be any power during the daytime anyway - it comes on between 00.30am and 07.30am.</p><p></p><p>A friend suggested getting a multimeter to test it myself during the night, so I can try that. Any other ideas?</p><p></p><p>Jodie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JodieS, post: 551956, member: 37689"] Hi folks, New here so hopefully posting in the right place. To cut a long story short, I am on Economy 7 and have two separate circuits wired into my meter which serve my flat - peak and off-peak. The only things connected to the off-peak circuit are two storage heaters and my immersion hot water tank. All three stopped working suddenly on Friday night (all other electrics are working fine). Everything looks normal externally and nothing has tripped in my consumer unit. First thought was the meter time-switch could be faulty, so my energy provider sent out an engineer yesterday. He replaced my 20-year old meter with a new smart meter. I was hoping to wake up to a toasty warm home this morning... nope. The heaters are stone cold. So I guess the problem must be to with the wiring in the off-peak circuit - either it's not receiving the message from the meter to tell it to come on at night, or something has gone wrong between the main switch and my flat. All of the meters and associated main switches are in a communal cupboard on the ground floor. Nobody else is having issues. I will get an electrician to come out - but how can they test the problem outside of the off-peak hours? As there isn't supposed to be any power during the daytime anyway - it comes on between 00.30am and 07.30am. A friend suggested getting a multimeter to test it myself during the night, so I can try that. Any other ideas? Jodie [/QUOTE]
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