Talk:Economy 7

message: I have just landed on this article thanks to the Random Article button, and reading through it, something has occurred to me.
I seem to recall that at one time, Economy 7 had some kind of facility which allowed you to vary the times at which your heating, water, etc, was on.  This meant it would come on for a couple of hours during the afternoon and evening, as well as at night.  I have a vague memory of Victoria Wood appearing in an advert for one of the old electricity boards shortly after they were privatized, in which she talked about the facility.  Anyone got a reference on that one?
Paul from Brum (talk) 14:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the daytime prices are normal and the nighttime prices are cheaper. My Economy 7 meter has two readings - normal (day) and low (night). Night works from 12:30am to 7:30am (an hour later in the summer), but I believe it is possible to vary the times. I think you need a different control panel or something. Sometimes you can get an hour or two of cheap electricity during the day or evening. Hope this helps. TheRetroGuy (talk) 09:55, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  British Gas's website, at least, shows the daytime rate substantially more expensive than on a single rate tariff (32p/kWh v. 25p/kWh), at least for "Tier 1" (the first few hundred kWhs used per quarter.) -- Steved424 (talk) 21:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variation Facility 

message: Why does this article contradict itself? Bad form.
"The above is often not the case however."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelward82 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you point out how it doesn't not contradict itself? SimonTrew (talk) 04:25, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictions 

message: I have a large 10 KW storage cabinet (Electrick air)its 38 years old and not replace able now, small storage heaters are bulky and dont hold the heat long enough.I would like to use economy 7 with radiators from a large insulated water tank heated with 9 KW heater. I can put a tank in the basement. has ony one tried this, and what size tank is needed. at the moment I have modified the heater down to 8 K/Watts which is ample to heat the house.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.137.103 (talk) 20:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Large water storage with at least 8KW heater. 

message: On what does the article base the claim that few houses have dedicated off peak wiring for storage and immersion heaters? 86.22.248.209 (talk) 19:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the article contradicts itself first saying it's normal to have seperate wiring for storage heaters and then saying few houses do. 86.22.248.209 (talk) 19:42, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article seems like BS 

message: In responce to this I have a flat on an estate constructed during the early 1970's and first served by the Southern Electricity Board: it has two indepenently fed arrays of circuit breackers (acting like a modern consumer unit) it was equiped with a teleswitch and the heateing and hotwater circuts are fed from one array only in the off-peak and the rest is supplied from the other arry fed all the time.
This system used was not economy-7 but an earlier type of tariff that was eventuly replaced for new connections by the economy-7 system.  It was called White meter and had a night cycle from 11pm-7am allowing users to load and and set off machines like washing machines by hand at bed-time as well as supplying storage heaters for background heating.  This time period was still good for load balenceing at that time but economy 7 focused more on heating both water and storage heating and was depolyed with stagered starts in the locality to reduce the peak switching effect of white meter.  Economy 10 is a varation on the economy 7 concept with day time bosts for the cold climetes like scotland.
Modern flats I have seen been wrired for tri-tariff rates supply the cheapest only to the heating circuits this fits a plan that has the heating at a seperate rate from the day and night cycles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.62.136 (talk) 20:44, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
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