agent69
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Post by agent69 on Oct 20, 2022 21:34:39 GMT
I never realised that houses are split up into blocks for the purpose of allocating electricity, and that your block number is shown on your bill. I'm block C, so looks like in the event of a level one disconnection I need to go down the pub Monday lunch time each week. Don't like the look of level 18.
Does anyone know how the blocks are allocated - each street same block, each post code the same block ?
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Post by keitha on Oct 20, 2022 23:31:26 GMT
it will be each feed from the substation so they can't turn me off and not next door
More importantly some people are saying because they are on the priority services register, they can't be turned off, unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
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Post by adrianc on Oct 21, 2022 8:29:18 GMT
It depends on where you are.
If your street has three phase, then usually houses take off from each of the phases in turn, so 1/3 are on each.
But for many of us, that's just not how it works. We have the transformer for our little hamlet of nine houses just behind my garage. It's 11kV down to 230v 1ph - all houses (and farm) are off that one phase.
To turn JUST us off, they'd have to physically come along and disconnect the transformer or feed to it - we're the end of a spur, but the other end is just off the main feed through the village. Various friends are the only property, or one of a couple, off a transformer from the middle of an 11kV run.
So for any kind of timed interruption for us, without sending a bloke running around the countryside, they'd have an entire village down at once.
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Post by registerme on Oct 21, 2022 8:37:50 GMT
Is it the large capital letter in the "Supply Number" box? If so I'm S.
Not entirely sure what that means, or whether the fact that there's a substation twenty feet from my front door makes any difference.
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 21, 2022 10:48:35 GMT
Is it the large capital letter in the "Supply Number" box? If so I'm S. Not entirely sure what that means, or whether the fact that there's a substation twenty feet from my front door makes any difference. I have the same S in my supply number box, but I don't believe it's that. From some research I did last night, I think it can be presented on your bill, as it is mine (Octopus), as "Postcode area alpha identifier: G". So I'd scan your bill for something similar. www.dcusa.co.uk/rota-load-block-alpha-identifiers/
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 21, 2022 11:09:14 GMT
It depends on where you are. If your street has three phase, then usually houses take off from each of the phases in turn, so 1/3 are on each. But for many of us, that's just not how it works. We have the transformer for our little hamlet of nine houses just behind my garage. It's 11kV down to 230v 1ph - all houses (and farm) are off that one phase. To turn JUST us off, they'd have to physically come along and disconnect the transformer or feed to it - we're the end of a spur, but the other end is just off the main feed through the village. Various friends are the only property, or one of a couple, off a transformer from the middle of an 11kV run. So for any kind of timed interruption for us, without sending a bloke running around the countryside, they'd have an entire village down at once. That was my experience in our street during the power cuts in the '70s. Every third house was in darkness for their rostered period. Your turn today, your neighbour's turn the following day... Although my bill (as posted above) suggests we might all lose power at once on my estate, given the "Postcode area identifier" wording.
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Post by registerme on Oct 21, 2022 11:37:05 GMT
Is it the large capital letter in the "Supply Number" box? If so I'm S. Not entirely sure what that means, or whether the fact that there's a substation twenty feet from my front door makes any difference. I have the same S in my supply number box, but I don't believe it's that. From some research I did last night, I think it can be presented on your bill, as it is mine (Octopus), as "Postcode area alpha identifier: G". So I'd scan your bill for something similar. www.dcusa.co.uk/rota-load-block-alpha-identifiers/Thank you. But nothing like that on my (EDF) bill. There is a capital H in a box above my name though.
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Post by bernythedolt on Oct 21, 2022 11:44:53 GMT
I have the same S in my supply number box, but I don't believe it's that. From some research I did last night, I think it can be presented on your bill, as it is mine (Octopus), as "Postcode area alpha identifier: G". So I'd scan your bill for something similar. www.dcusa.co.uk/rota-load-block-alpha-identifiers/Thank you. But nothing like that on my (EDF) bill. There is a capital H in a box above my name though. I think that's it then, you're in H. If you look at the OP's link, it shows exactly what you've described. See the graphic just below the Level 1 grid.
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Post by registerme on Oct 21, 2022 12:05:56 GMT
Thank you. But nothing like that on my (EDF) bill. There is a capital H in a box above my name though. I think that's it then, you're in H. If you look at the OP's link, it shows exactly what you've described. See the graphic just below the Level 1 grid. Time to buy some candles :/.
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Post by bracknellboy on Oct 21, 2022 12:14:28 GMT
I think that's it then, you're in H. If you look at the OP's link, it shows exactly what you've described. See the graphic just below the Level 1 grid. Time to buy some candles :/. Time to buy some candles
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Post by registerme on Oct 21, 2022 12:24:36 GMT
I feel Rickrolled
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Post by Badly Drawn Stickman on Oct 21, 2022 12:40:06 GMT
Having hidden posts from a swathe of posters (Nothing personal just need to be able to read the forum quicker) this may have already been mentioned...
Smart meters can be cut off remotely, usually not used but technically possible. People with essential needs for electricity supply are usually registered with the relevant provider (as opposed to supplier) and protection/back up is provided in the case of protracted outages.
The school of though that the smart meter listens in on your conversations and watches your behaviour are however not true.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Oct 21, 2022 13:18:10 GMT
Looking for the oil lamps we bought for the 1970s power cuts, a couple have been window ledge ornaments since then, but I think a couple are in the loft somewhere (major disaster area!).
Christmas day is a Sunday, so everyone gets a share!
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Post by rocky1 on Oct 21, 2022 13:21:35 GMT
i think alexa does though.some sort of comms going on between her and the smart meter the other morning when i came down to the kitchen at 4am,they were definitely flashing each other as i walked in.
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Post by Badly Drawn Stickman on Oct 21, 2022 13:25:59 GMT
i think alexa does though.some sort of comms going on between her and the smart meter the other morning when i came down to the kitchen at 4am,they were definitely flashing each other as i walked in. True, but at 6 watts you should be switching her off at night.
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