On / off peak electric meter to Grainstores

[Doing it for the kids]

What do others have for these set ups?

we have very old seasonal meters which seem to flick on in the Spring and off in the Autumn giving us 'off peak' power for the warmer months, day and night, but no power in the winter.

One of those has just gone wrong so they want to charge us night and day rates over the summer. I imagine the 'privilege' we farmers were given for off peak, during the summer days, back then are no longer around so trying to find a solution.

TYIA

 

[teslacoils]

I have inherited a very annoying setup whereby the 3ph feed into my drying fan hasa breaker attached to the electric meter so it only runs at off peak times.

This is seemingly a legacy from a previous, previous supplier. I am not on a peak / off peak contract. And my supplier won't change the meter. As it is, its no use at all.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

I have inherited a very annoying setup whereby the 3ph feed into my drying fan hasa breaker attached to the electric meter so it only runs at off peak times.

This is seemingly a legacy from a previous, previous supplier. I am not on a peak / off peak contract. And my supplier won't change the meter. As it is, its no use at all.

ive just had in writing that I can go and 'fix' the seasonal meter. to be clear, the meter that reads the power consumption is before that so no tampering required

you should be able to do the same thing I would have thought. I think you will find the main mete runs a supply feed to this seasonal meter thing which runs the clock. when the clock is happy (in my case the summer) it should send a live feed back to a break bar which magnetically pulls the circuit shut to give you power.

 

[steveR]

What do others have for these set ups?

we have very old seasonal meters which seem to flick on in the Spring and off in the Autumn giving us 'off peak' power for the warmer months, day and night, but no power in the winter.

One of those has just gone wrong so they want to charge us night and day rates over the summer. I imagine the 'privilege' we farmers were given for off peak, during the summer days, back then are no longer around so trying to find a solution.

TYIA

You need one of those "electricians" the cannabis growing houses use...! Just bypass the meter

Can you pull more juice through one of the other meters to negate the broken one?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

You need one of those "electricians" the cannabis growing houses use...! Just bypass the meter

Can you pull more juice through one of the other meters to negate the broken one?

yeah I can but one is at 8.54 p the other 16.09p

now that I have been given permission to go in and fix it I will but curious to find out if there was an easier method or some old boy that fixes old meters. its a work of art, has the day, and month on a timer clock which all clicks in as expected, old school engineering.

 

[steveR]

yeah I can but one is at 8.54 p the other 16.09p

now that I have been given permission to go in and fix it I will but curious to find out if there was an easier method or some old boy that fixes old meters. its a work of art, has the day, and month on a timer clock which all clicks in as expected, old school engineering.

I am surprised the Power Co will allow you to have the meter worked on!! Well done for getting that one through

There are companies (or there used to be) that would service all the mechanical meters. One of my contemparies from school went to work for one in Ludlow.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

I am surprised the Power Co will allow you to have the meter worked on!! Well done for getting that one through

There are companies (or there used to be) that would service all the mechanical meters. One of my contemparies from school went to work for one in Ludlow.

they don't really understand it. I was going back and forward via a middle man to the tech team, after 10 minutes they put me through directly. I stressed that clock was after the meter and we did not have to touch their meter or remove any tags so it was ok. No Lies there, I just forgot to mention a few other points

the other solution was that they broke my contract with no fees and I went elsewhere. Given I have only been with them for about 15% of the contract they didn't want that...

 

[teslacoils]

ive just had in writing that I can go and 'fix' the seasonal meter. to be clear, the meter that reads the power consumption is before that so no tampering required

you should be able to do the same thing I would have thought. I think you will find the main mete runs a supply feed to this seasonal meter thing which runs the clock. when the clock is happy (in my case the summer) it should send a live feed back to a break bar which magnetically pulls the circuit shut to give you power.

Unsure. Mine has a wire from the 3ph meter which then runs into another box which opens and shuts the connection. Calls to existing supplier say not them. Calls to distributer say it's supplier. Supplier who installed says not their problem as I'm not their customer.