EGAT and Mains Supply Meters.

[Formaleins]

Not sure where to post this to be honest, there appears to be a million forums, but the "Electrical" forum seems to have disappeared, swamped no doubt by "Weed" forums, and another 999999 other topics.

 

Never mind, maybe someone here has some experience in EGAT Electric meters and their availability.

 

Long long time ago I had an issue with voltage drop from my meter and the consumer panel when using my electric (10KW) water heater. We are hooked up to the meter which is a 15A / 45A meter, but were down to about 170 VAC, with our standard setup. Crossey suggested that we add a couple of pigtails to our cable from the meter and then double up the aluminium cables to the consumer unit to get better current flow.

 

Well, that worked fine for about 3 years until we apparently destroyed EGAT's electric meter - which they replaced free of charge - but were really pissed about me doubling up the cables - but that the hell....

 

I sae an article recently where a guy mentioned that he had upgraded from the 15/45A meter to a newer 30/100 A supply. I am interested to hear if anyone here is using this supply and is it a unique or different set of feed conductors that supply this power from EGAT or is there a need for 3 phase or an uprated supply? - I asked our local EGAT guy and he hadn't even heard of 30/100A.

 

From what I can gather, all charges for the monthly rental and the unit cost of the electric is exactly the same as 15/45 - Anyone pitch in and shed some light on this and its availability? Be nice to get upgraded before I burn out another of EGAT's meters.

 

Thanks!

[CharlieH]

Its located under the Proprty section

 

 

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[Formaleins]

5 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Its located under the Proprty section

 

 

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Thanks!