Radio Teleswitch Service

[Fusewirey]

The Daily Telegraph has discovered the Radio Teleswitch Service today:

"BBC switch-off to force 600,000 households on to smart meters"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/bills/energy/600000-households-forced-smart-meters/

Does these signal actively switch things every day, or often just keep the meter time clocks accurate?

So it it stops, will clocks in many meters merely start drifting over time, and nothing more serious than that?

 

[binky]

Telegraph talk bollocks, I don't think I've seen a working teleswitch in decades, any meter that old would have been updated at least once, possibly twice by now.

 

[UNG]

The RTS actively switches every event
https://www.energy-uk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/RTS-digital-leaflet-2023-v2.pdf

 

[ProDave]

All that changed since you saw a big black box called a "radio tele switch" is electronics got smaller and became built into dual rate meters. So they too will stop working if the signal stops.

I believe they would continue working on an internal timer if they did not receive the signal but that would all probably go wrong at the next power cut.

My honest advice for anyone still using E7 and storage heaters, spend some money and upgrade your heating for an Air Source Heat Pump. You will use about 1/3 of the electricity your storage heaters used, saving you money (more money than if you switched from a gas boiler to an ASHP) and you would not need to be on a dual rate tarrif, so a normal single rate tariff would also give you a cheaper day rate compared to E7.

 

[michael8554]

We get regular messages from EDF, starting about a year ago, that RTS is being phased out.

But as our Economy 10 time periods for the storage rads are switched by a mechanical clock.

And EDF say they don't have a Smart Meter that handles E10.

We aren't rushing to change anything

Heat Pump ?

We couldn't contemplate the upheaval of installing pipework and radiators throughout the house.

Instead we have a mini split aircon on the livingroom wall.

Which was a god-send during last year's heat waves.

And gives heating boosts to the storage rads, which work pretty well with E10.