Recent content by Scud

Up until last year I was a meter fixer but I'm now employed as a technical trainer, mostly meter fixing, so I've had plenty of experience of meters. I'm surprised it's taken so long to spot and rectify a meter fault such as you describe. You could stick a second supply from your storage...

Ok, where do I begin? We've established, I think, that you live in ScottishPower's home area. That being the case, Economy 7 isn't applicable. ScottishPower do use that tariff, but only in SP South (the old Manweb area of England). The reason the night rate is applied to everything but the...

This one turned into Ben Hur didn't it? I work for DataserveUK, a meter operator, and we work now the way we always did. We use Drummond Test Lamps only, in conjunction with a test lamp proving unit, to prove a dead circuit. We do use neon testers, but their function is limited to proving...

I work for Dataserve, so can shed some light on this. The concept of the two/three/four pole isolator with a sealed top end came about many years ago and was partly so move rsponisbility for testing installations back to the contractor. Prior to that, any new/ additional installations had to be...

I work for what is most likely your supplier ( I instal meters ). There are one or two different issues here. I understand what you said about becoming a credit customer, so you're stuck with prepayment. As you so rightly said, either of the Comfortplus tariffs require two MPAN (supply) numbers...