Electric (coin) meter, Money not going down!

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Things change I've changed

Things change I've changed

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Hi, my old coin meter for my electricity broke a couple of days ago, the landlord put in a new digital dual coin meter, this one http://rdlmeters.com/m-101e-dual-coin-operated-meter-timer.html

We set the rate to 14ppu and at first it seemed to be working fine, and then I noticed it was slowing down and today the money is barely going down even if the shower is on.

In the corner of the screen it says 'RED' which after a bit of googling means 'reverse energy detection' which usually means the electric is flowing into the meter which would only normally happen if you have solar panels which I obviously down own in an flat.

Anyone have any experience with this?

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What the hell!

Now my meter is going too fast!?

In fact I've just turned all my electric off at the mains box and it's still draining electric, the 1000imp/Kwh led is nearly flashing once per second, which is about 1kW per 16mins!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NxETV2LwvS5A3nvj7
 
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It could be you've over paid hence the change in the rate the meters snaffling your credit.
 
It's not a coin meter from a supplier, it's some dodgy meter from a landlord who will be controlling the proper supply meter behind closed doors and possibly making a profit on it.

Either way, it's not something I'd want to put up with.
 
MonkeyMan said:
Who empties these coin meters? Seems a very out of date concept.
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He has looked into the new meters where by your tenants can pay online or even contactless and you can even choose your own supplier, the thing is a lot of the companies have a surcharge which ramps the cost of the electric up.


LeeUK said:
It's not a coin meter from a supplier, it's some dodgy meter from a landlord who will be controlling the proper supply meter behind closed doors and possibly making a profit on it.

Either way, it's not something I'd want to put up with.
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I know what mean but the landlord is pretty transparent about what he is doing, I think 14p kWh is a fair rate? He even left it unlocked in case thier was any problems I could just run the pound coins through.
 
Things change I've changed said:
what is the alternative though?

You have twelve flats how do you charge for electric? It's costs a fortune to install proper sweb meters.

Down here in Newquay loads of people still use coin meters!
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Just let each flat have its own normal meter and they sort themselves out on the provider etc? I don't see why the owner would want to arrange all this and maintain it for other people.
 
with eon prepayment crappy key I pay
Unit rate
Normal 14.952p per kWh
Standing charge
30.408p per day

but heating is from my own landlord with some communal boiler BS, no idea how it's meant to work, I think the radiators are from the communal boiler, but actual hot water is our own boiler, makes no sense to me.
12p
22p standing charge

kinda sucks cos it's double standing charge this way :/

my lasts months bill for heating was barely a pound for heating and about 6 quid in standing charges , utterly ridiculous imo

The heating used to be uber cheap when the landlord managed the payments by themselves but they switched to some third party company this year and prices are crap now, before it was a fixed charge depending on the properties amount of bedrooms.

for me it was something silly like £5 a month.
 
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