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New Move In - Landis+Gyr E470 Type 5424 Not Working?

  • June 15, 2023
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Hello all, I’m new here. Got some problem with the meter when I moved into a rental property last week. Googled a bit and seems like there are a lot of useful resources and helpful participant in this forum so tried to post a question here.

 

The property is an apartment in a block and all meters are located in the basement of the block. I’m not expert of meters but below few things of mine looked suspicious:

  1. It may not be showing clearly in the photo but there is a “X” at the bottom right corner of the display. Looking at other meters of the same model around, they are showing a square sign at the same location of the display.
  2. The red light is always on. Again - the same light of other meters is not on.
  3. The reading has been stale since I moved in last Friday.
  4. There are 5 lights (SW, WAN, etc) at the upper part. They are always off for my meter but showing green lights for other meter.

 

What should I do? Contact the agent, the onsite property management or the energy company? I don’t even have registered to an energy company right now. Because of the abnormal behaviour of the meter, I’m cautious that the meter reading may not be correct so I don’t want to take on the account with this reading.

 

Thanks a lot for your help!

Ivan

 

 

Best answer by Blastoise186

Updated on 18/03/25 by Ben_OVO

 

The meter has failed and your supply might have disconnected. Please have a word with the energy supplier and they’ll get you back up and running. The property management company can’t touch this one.

Your DNO can find out who the supplier is.

Hope this helps! Lmk if you need more advice.

 

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BPLightlog
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BPLightlogSuper User
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June 15, 2023

Hi @ivanpa did you get any further?

From the image , I can see ‘Rate 01 Act Imp’ and also 00254kwh so I presume the meter is working, just not communicating? Or do you not have a supply? 

No I haven’t had chance to call UK Power Networks but will do so tomorrow.

There is no problem for my supply, but just the few things I listed initially (especially the stale reading) seem to be suggesting there is something wrong.

I’m now even thinking what will happen if I just keep on consuming the supply but no one is clocking the usage properly ….

Ah, that’s what you mean by stale - apologies, I misunderstood. 
Generally, there is a process of assessment once the meter is replaced/back in operation. Readings are taken and usage calculated based on the assessment for the period with no meter readings. 
Hope you can get some clarification. 

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June 16, 2023

Hey @ivanpa ,

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