Pea meter

[taengkwah82]

Hey guys I have a question.

I have applied to upgrade my meter from 15A to 100A 2 months ago at the local Pea office.

They came to have a look to check if everything was in the right place and told me however they don't have any other meter at the moment available.

They can't tell me if they can order and how long it would take to get one from bangkok.

After 2 months of not knowing and calling the call center and going to the office I lost my hope.

Any idea on what to do?

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

That's a big jump. 

 

PEA probably need to upgrade mains. 

 

[Crossy]

Is your current meter a 5/15 or a 15/45? I assume you are asking for a 30/100 which PEA may be reluctant to provide if you're outside the major conurbations.

 

What is your reason for requesting an upgrade? What's your estimated maximum load?

 

Most of us are happily running on 15/45 meters with 63A main breakers.

 

Meters are actually incredibly robust; a 100% overload (so 100A on a 15/45) won't kill it (but may cause inaccurate readings). I'm aware of places on 5/15 meters with a regular "farang" home on the other end (with a 63A breaker) meter is just fine.

 

PEA are generally upgrading everyone to electronic meters so they may well not have any 30/100 conventional meters and the electronic ones, which are "universal" are in short supply.

 

Generally, I would do nothing. You have informed PEA just leave it be.

 

Note, if you are having supply issues (brown outs, low voltage etc.) changing the meter is unlikely to help.

[taengkwah82]

At the moment it is a 5(15) and I am about to open my restaurant .

Main breaker is 100 

 

[Crossy]

Ah, understood, a 5/15 is probably going to be a bit unhappy if you have lots of energy-sucking electric cooking devices.

 

Try asking if they could give you a 15/45 in the meantime, otherwise let sleeping dogs lie.

 

Did you or your sparks do a prospective load estimate? You may actually be ok on the smaller (15/45) meter.

[taengkwah82]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

Ah, understood, a 5/15 is probably going to be a bit unhappy if you have lots of energy-sucking electric cooking devices.

 

Try asking if they could give you a 15/45 in the meantime, otherwise let sleeping dogs lie.

 

Did you or your sparks do a prospective load estimate? You may actually be ok on the smaller (15/45) meter.

Yes, the rough calculation of all the appliances is 14000watts / 64 amp obviously could be slightly more if cuatomers plug in pc or phones 

[Crossy]

Yeah, a bit marginal for a 15/45, although diversity would play a big part in reducing the actual loading.

 

It would of course be much better than your current 5/15.

[bluejets]

3 hours ago, taengkwah82 said:

Main breaker is 100 

.............and mains size is?

 

You might be better off on 3Phase/Neutral.