On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:18:42 +0100, Oshiponga wrote:

I've had storage heaters in my house since I moved in and not had a
massive problem with electricity bills. Recently though, I've had a
frightening bill from British Gas who say that in a month my night
rate electricity has used just over 1000 units

Period 13 Jan 7th Apr one, occasionally two, storage heaters used
2546 units. These where to keep the frost out of the cottage, and
where almost certainly cooling out during the day and thus taking full
charge over night, the maths bears that out 90 days 7hrs/day is
630hrs. 2546/630 = 4kw/hr on average. One heater is a biggie 3kW (ish)
the other 1.5kW or maybe 2.

So 1000kW/hrs for a whole house in a month doesn't strike me as to far
from the mark.

What they have asked me to do is monitor the reading at the same
time every day for 7 days and then call them back with the
information. They will then do some sums and work out if the meter
needs checking.

How is reading the meter the suspect meter going to help work out if
it's gone wonky? Unless they think it's rate switching is wrong and
it's charging to much power at the night (aka cheap) rate.

Incidentally if someone could point out the typical consumption of
an 18 brick Dimplex storage heater, I can also do some sums. I'm
assuming they are around 1.5 - 2.5 kWh?

2.5kWh for 7 hrs is 17.5kWhrs for 30 days is 525 units. Say you have 4
of these and they only take half a charge and you have 1000 units as
near as damn it...

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail