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[Joeboy]

Found out today that the smart meter disconnects before the 100A fuse blows.

I am a knob

[nowty]

Found out today that the smart meter disconnects before the 100A fuse blows.

I am a knob

I keep mine at about 90A to 95A.

Did it reset when you lowered the load or is it a humble phone call to the Octopus ?

[AE-NMidlands]

going nicely here:

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Immersion & Fan heater on, kettle boiled several times, freezer on boost, honey warming oven on.
Off now!

[Tinbum]

Found out today that the smart meter disconnects before the 100A fuse blows.

Interesting, I pulled 22kWh in this session and it was needed.

[Yuff]

Day didn’t start off well left my battery discharging all night
I use a lot in the maorning anyway so credit won’t be that high, although I had no heating from Friday afternoon until yesterday at 7.40 am and only one heat pump,working until 4 pm, so will have made a little bit on the lack of a heat pump yesterday…….
Was adding a WiFi adapter to the panel and some of the fuse spurs decided to stop working…..that was fun with freezing temps Friday night/sat morning. Luckily there was a bit of heat in the buffer tank for a bit of UFH sat morning.

[Joeboy]

Found out today that the smart meter disconnects before the 100A fuse blows.

I am a knob

I keep mine at about 90A to 95A.

Did it reset when you lowered the load or is it a humble phone call to the Octopus ?

I was pulling 25kW for an hour, knocked a storage heater off and put on the kettle, hit 27kW and the house went black. I pulled the 100A fuse and it was ok. Tiny text on the smart meter which TBH i hadn't noticed said push both buttons to reconnect (Orange & Blue buttons). Fortunately next week I wont be needing the SH's so won't feel this way again (for a while).

[Stinsy]

I too struggled today. We use a lot of power in the mornings anyway (I game 0530-0900 slot every day). And the weather has gone from -4℃to 14℃ so no resistive heat required.

[Marcus]

, Actually this was the first useful SS for me: the previous ones were generally in the middle of a sunny day, and even if i was at home to take advantage, i usially had the battery charged, the water hot and any washing done by lunchtime anyway.

This one, coincided with the water tank being cold,following a very dull day and preceeding another overcast day, and very wet weather which tends to upset my hydro-electric generator. So i managed 2 hrs of ASHP waterheating + immersion, and ASHP house heating once water temp > HP limit, plus a wash of dog blankets.

[AGT]

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[AE-NMidlands]

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That's bad luck. Mine came in about 11.25.
I use Firefox which is apparently a "client" and have discovered the hard way that stuff goes into the gmail online spam box and does not get forwarded... I have missed out in things in the past, so I try to remember to check it at least weekly!