I went to check the details on the card left by the engineer when my new meter was installed a few months ago. This is what I found:
The card isn’t even card - it’s just paper, and it was originally attached to the backboard by the screw to the left of the meter. Small animals have clearly come foraging and (luckily) found nothing to their taste except for this card. Not a single character penned by the engineer is left. By contrast, the yellow warning sticker is pristine possibly eight years after it was applied. The details on the card have to be legible for the life of the meter, 10 years or more.
Q1: Could this vital information fe.g. old and new meter MSNs, register readings and date, and ID of the engineer responsible] please be made more durable?
Q2: I‘m fairly sure the engineer took a photo of the card he’d filled in and (presumably) submitted it along with the rest of his report. Could I get a copy, if so? How?
I had to ask the engineer what the markings on the cables meant. It’s strange that the industry and BSI lay down a colour code for power cables, then make quite sure it doesn’t work by insisting that the coloured cables be sheathed in a uniform grey layer, so there’s no way of identifying them. Helpful engineers apply their own identification marks, whose meaning customers then have to guess at or ask about. L and N are commonly recognized as Line (or Live) and Neutral, but LS and LC?
I was told that from this dual-rate meter, LC indicates the line conductor for the Constant load while LS is the one for the Switched load, live only during offpeak periods. I wouldn’t have known, so I wonder:
Q3: Is this an industry-wide convention? If not, is there one for markings like this? Shouldn’t there be?
Please check your own meter cabinets: does anyone with peak and offpeak circuits have similar cable markings? Or obvious L and N markings? Is the installation information clearly visible and likely to remain so?
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