ever seen a blown cut-out fuse?

Kelly Marie:

Hi  Warren I looked at the lights around 22:30 last nite and noticed not a flicker not even the tiniest amount of dimming I guess economy 7 isn't popular round here!

Hi Kelly


Guess that's a possibility. In the past I've lived in the city and a large village (3 doors down from the substation), and at both places the lights dipped noticeably at 22:30. Now I live in a rural location, where there's no mains gas. There are quite a few old folk in the village who've been here since the dawn of time, and must have had storage heating installed when it was on offer from the then area boards. At 22:30 the lights practically go out. You can set your watch by it!


This is one of the drawbacks with the radio teleswitch - they nearly all switch on at the same time, when they receive the timing pulse. The older mechanical timeswitches (manually wound, motor maintained) had a slight margin of error, in that the timing depended on the meter man's watch and his accuracy in setting the dial. This gave a few minutes' discrepancy between individual households E7 switching in, so the volt drop wasn't quite as obvious.

Kelly Marie:

Hi  Warren I looked at the lights around 22:30 last nite and noticed not a flicker not even the tiniest amount of dimming I guess economy 7 isn't popular round here!

Hi Kelly


Guess that's a possibility. In the past I've lived in the city and a large village (3 doors down from the substation), and at both places the lights dipped noticeably at 22:30. Now I live in a rural location, where there's no mains gas. There are quite a few old folk in the village who've been here since the dawn of time, and must have had storage heating installed when it was on offer from the then area boards. At 22:30 the lights practically go out. You can set your watch by it!


This is one of the drawbacks with the radio teleswitch - they nearly all switch on at the same time, when they receive the timing pulse. The older mechanical timeswitches (manually wound, motor maintained) had a slight margin of error, in that the timing depended on the meter man's watch and his accuracy in setting the dial. This gave a few minutes' discrepancy between individual households E7 switching in, so the volt drop wasn't quite as obvious.