RTS meter and seperate meter for heat pump - do I need to switch?

Hi ​@mgbolt , just to start things in the right way, do you know that you have an RTS setup or is that an assumption? We have seen several ‘strange’ setups which are not RTS and therefore not affected by the radio signal switch off but a smart meter would be useful in any case to allow you to get access to various rates with different charges at different times (similar to Economy 7 but can be better).

A photo of your meter and surrounding wiring would help someone to check.

The rest of your queries can then be tailored to suit.

​@mgbolt good morning and thanks for your post. 

I’m just dropping by to say welcome to the Forum, and I’ve added the heat pump badge to your Forum profile. We’ll await the photos ​@BPLightlog has requested - this is an incredibly helpful community and we’ll be able to give you some good answers to all of this once we know more about your setup.

Thank you for your replies!

Here are some photos of the cabinet, there is a FiT meter for the solar panels indoors.
With the flash, I see that the grey meter is the RTS one, but to be clear it doesn't use any timed switching any more - I just pay one rate for the heating circuit, and one for everything else.
Would this need replacing now in any case? And if so, can a smart meter run the same or an equivalent tariff?

Just tagging ​@BPLightlog here so they don’t miss your response 😊

​@Lukepeniket_OVO might be able to offer some helpful advice here. 

We have a number of topics & resources that might be of interest to you:

Without commenting on the meters, I do note the white backboard there.

It looks similar to that one that proved problematic as ‘suspected asbestos’ on a recent thread.
Just something else to be aware of.

Hello Luke and thank you,

The grey meter reads the heating circuit as stands, and the white meter is the rest of the household.
As well as the solar panels, I have two storage batteries in the circuit and an electric vehicle charging point. I think that's everything!
We'd been reading up about five port smart meters, and wondering if that would be suitable?
As the heating circuit is the majority of my usage, I'm keen to keep the cost of that under control.
At the moment the only choices I've been offered are Economy 9 or 10, and the averaged cost for those would seem to be somewhat more expensive.
I'd much prefer to keep things as they are.
Any advice gratefully received!

Nukecad,

We had an appointment with engineers, who thought the same and took a sample for testing, but apparently it was found to be safe. It would have been installed in about 1989?

That’s good and I didn’t think that it was asbestos myself, but the meter engineers have to be over-careful when the possibility is there.

… apparently it was found to be safe.

I hope you got, and kept, some documentation from the testing?

As I said in that other thread I’d print a sticky label for it that says something like;

“This board was tested in 20## and does not contain asbestos”.

Any future engineer could of course choose to ignore such a label, but at least it’s stated for them to see.

Morning!!

No that's fair I appreciate about keeping it all under control, I cant guarantee with the switch off that the meter will continue functioning. I must be honest i am not too clued up with tariffs but we should offer suitable alternatives.

Without providing too much information do you live within MPAN 17?
 

Hello Luke,

I can confirm that I'm living in MPAN 17, yes.