Economy 7 or night meter

[chr15b]

I have one of these meters, it's quite a new one with digital readout. When we moved in here the house had a single electric storage heater which I assumed was connected to the night side of this.

In the box where the meter is kept we used to have a large fuse thing that said "storage heaters" and a regular fuse box, these were both fed off the meter which had four large cables - two to each.

The fuse has been out of the storage heater side as we'd had it removed, today I received my first electric bill - was surprised to see a significant number of units used on the night meter so I checked it and it was up by about 2000.

Anyone know how does this work? I always assumed that it was like having two electric feeds/meters and things either ran off one or the other - or is it as they said when I phoned up that everything runs off the night rate side during those hours it's cheaper?

Cheers
Chris

[Mr GrimNasty]

The storage heater circuit is normally on an automatic time switch so that its 'fuse box' is only energised off-peak. But any other electricity used during those off-peak hours is also charged at the off-peak rate. So, say, you had an electric immersion heater on the main consumer unit, you might want to put that on a timer to also take advantage of the cheaper rate. With economy 7, although the off-peak is cheap, the on-peak is more expensive than the single rate. So if you aren't using a lot of electricity at night, Economy 7 may be more expensive for you - need to do some sums.

[OlberJ]

I thought this was gonna be about a diesel Caterham.