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Old 7th April 2022, 19:14   #21
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Switching the TV off at the plug will have zero effect upon the lightning risk I'm afraid Ron.



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I know that, but it's what my mother believed back in the day 😎

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Old 7th April 2022, 19:58   #22
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I know that, but it's what my mother believed back in the day 😎
Mine too!

You've hit the nail on the head there Ron. We're fed a load of nonsense by organisations that don't know what they're talking about!

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We're fed a load of nonsense by exspurts on the the Internet.

Sadly folks believe it.

We have fancy light bulbs throughout the house which are supposedly low energy, not seen much reduction in my lecky bill though.
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We have fancy light bulbs throughout the house which are supposedly low energy, not seen much reduction in my lecky bill though.
That's because the amount of electricity consumed by lighting is small anyway. It's heating which will have the greatest impact upon your bill, for example your oven, hob, kettle, washing machine, dishwasher, iron, etc. Taking advantage of the lower Economy 7 tariff will give you a 40% saving during the off-peak period.

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That's because the amount of electricity consumed by lighting is small anyway. It's heating which will have the greatest impact upon your bill, for example your oven, hob, kettle, washing machine, dishwasher, iron, etc. Taking advantage of the lower Economy 7 tariff will give you a 40% saving during the off-peak period.

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Used to install E7 meters years ago and even though I haven't put one in for some 30 plus years, reckon I still could with my eyes closed.

Anyway the day rate was a lot more and I never cook at 3 in the morning.
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Anyway the day rate was a lot more and I never cook at 3 in the morning.
Both the normal and off-peak rates need to be taken into account in calculations since the 40% discount will give you a substantial reduction in costs. Nearly half my consumption is at that rate.

Do you cook before 08.30? That's when the discounted period ends (BST).

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Both the normal and off-peak rates need to be taken into account in calculations since the 40% discount will give you a substantial reduction in costs. Nearly half my consumption is at that rate.

Do you cook before 08.30? That's when the discounted period ends (BST).

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We have a gas cooker

Used to fit them for a living, mostly where the house owner had storage radiators installed, rarely when they did not. When we did install them without the heating we would quite often remove them 12 months later as not economical.

The tariff was called D5, if I remember correctly D1 was a normal domestic tariff. When customers changed over to gas central heating from one of the legacy tariffs that used to give a midafternoon boost, they used to install sockets on the old storage heater outlets so that they could use whatever they wanted when the tariff timeswitch clicked on.

Some industrial/commercial installations used to have a tariff where the timeswitch had to be reset every clock change. Cushy number until we had to gain access to the banks.

Oh happy days.
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I wonder what the electricity consumption was in the Bide-A-Wee mansion, in "Carry On Screaming" ?
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I wonder what the electricity consumption was in the Bide-A-Wee mansion, in "Carry On Screaming" ?

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