Le-Dolly
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Post by Le-Dolly on Dec 16, 2023 16:55:34 GMT 1
You need to be at the French property to allow EDF contractors to access your current meter and replace the whole board with the three phase unit. Contact Enedis on connect-racco.enedis.fr/prac-internet/custom/C5E/accueil to arrange the modification. I assume the plumber is also an electrician? True, if your electric boiler is large you may need more amps from the linky as it could trip out when you reach the limit in the meter. I strongly suggest you call your real electrician to help with the installation after the meter as you may well need to change part of your tableau to split the phases. It is also possible that your plumber is suggesting you should have had a three phase heater in your tank to reduce the amps consumed. And not that you should change now to three phase. Check if the boiler installed is indeed suitable for Three phase. My boiler had a simple adaptor to change from single phase to three phase. Three phase is OK if you have other heavy users like a compressor, workshop tools, sawbench, heat pump. Not necessarily so, 3ph is perfectly capable and usual to use as three single phases plus 3ph take offs for any products that may require, or benefit from such. In our case we use 3ph for the boiler. The washing machine and the induction hob are both 2ph. The cost of the leccy is the same as single phase, only the abonnement cost is negligibly more.
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exile
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Post by exile on Dec 16, 2023 18:14:23 GMT 1
Another ******g system that assumes that everyone in the world had a mobile phone - let alone a mobile signal to receive their one off pass code!
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Post by crabtree on Dec 17, 2023 12:39:33 GMT 1
Another ******g system that assumes that everyone in the world had a mobile phone - let alone a mobile signal to receive their one off pass code! I have been using it for quite a while and never had to do that, obviously progress
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Post by robertarthur on Dec 18, 2023 23:07:52 GMT 1
@ pcpa and cernnunos, you can check your Linky meter, without internet or mobile phone, even if it is outside your property. The only thing you have to do is open the coffret EDF with a universal cabinet key. In the past it was sometimes necessary after overcharging and tripping your Disjoncteur de Branchement. Now it is Linky that you have to restart after such an event. The cabinet itself is not sealed, the fuses inside, the Linky meter and the DB have their protections against intruders. You will not be shot by Enedis because of trespassing. I'm still alive after opening more than one external cabinet ( old style).
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Post by jackie on Dec 19, 2023 10:29:25 GMT 1
We have a Linky meter in our well insulated eco home and a while back EDF tried to increase our monthly payment by a ridiculous amount. We immediately phoned and it was adjusted back down without any question. Anyone else experienced this? I hear it’s going on a lot in the UK too with some getting ridiculous amounts like £30 grand a month and bank accounts being cleared out by DDs just before Christmas…..
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Post by dept71 on Dec 19, 2023 10:31:13 GMT 1
I haven't a clue on how to read the linky meter, no paperwork was left with us. Don't even know what to do if it trips the power, too scared to push any buttons
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Post by robertarthur on Dec 19, 2023 11:48:22 GMT 1
Cernunnos, reading the display, touching a push button of your Linky meter: clicking on a totally wrong link on your smartphone, that's risky business, it's far too easy. The display of your Linky is passive one-way traffic: you can only look at your setting and power consumption, not change anything. The only real action allowed is a reset after an overload. Back to school, learning by doing, don't wait too long. In the midhight hour, nice song by Wilson Pickett, not when the power trips, rain, snow and a storm blowing..... There are manuals available, also in English: Single-phase: particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Documents-Site-Anglais/Notice_compteur_Linky_Monophase_anglais.pdfThree-phase: particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Documents-Site-Anglais/Notice_compteur_Linky_Triphase_anglais.pdfThree-phase and single-phase, price difference? In France, the price of the subscription varies according to the power of the meter and the supplier's offer, and not at all according to whether or not you have a three-phase connection. It's all about your puissance souscrite. Three-phase contracts seem to cost more than single-phase contracts, for the simple reason that in a three-phase installation you need a higher over-all puissance-souscrite to prevent tripping, not too difficult because each phase carries only one third of the total amps available in your abonnement. One phase overloaded, everything comes to a halt. The art of 3-phase load balancing. As a result, the amount of the electricity subscription, i.e. the fixed part of the bill, is automatically higher. An example of a mix of single-phase and three-phase equipment.
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Post by crabtree on Dec 19, 2023 16:18:18 GMT 1
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Post by cernunnos on Dec 19, 2023 17:16:43 GMT 1
Cernunnos, reading the display, touching a push button of your Linky meter: clicking on a totally wrong link on your smartphone, that's risky business, it's far too easy. The display of your Linky is passive one-way traffic: you can only look at your setting and power consumption, not change anything. The only real action allowed is a reset after an overload. Back to school, learning by doing, don't wait too long. In the midhight hour, nice song by Wilson Pickett, not when the power trips, rain, snow and a storm blowing..... There are manuals available, also in English: Single-phase: particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Documents-Site-Anglais/Notice_compteur_Linky_Monophase_anglais.pdfThree-phase: particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Documents-Site-Anglais/Notice_compteur_Linky_Triphase_anglais.pdfThree-phase and single-phase, price difference? In France, the price of the subscription varies according to the power of the meter and the supplier's offer, and not at all according to whether or not you have a three-phase connection. It's all about your puissance souscrite. Three-phase contracts seem to cost more than single-phase contracts, for the simple reason that in a three-phase installation you need a higher over-all puissance-souscrite to prevent tripping, not too difficult because each phase carries only one third of the total amps available in your abonnement. One phase overloaded, everything comes to a halt. The art of 3-phase load balancing. As a result, the amount of the electricity subscription, i.e. the fixed part of the bill, is automatically higher. An example of a mix of single-phase and three-phase equipment. Got the wrong man RA, I'm not scared of pushing buttons nor do I have a smartphone , also speak four languages , not just Anglais ! Maybe a trip to Hans Anders ?
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Post by lurcher on Dec 20, 2023 10:06:29 GMT 1
I haven't a clue on how to read the linky meter, no paperwork was left with us. Don't even know what to do if it trips the power, too scared to push any buttons You can operate your Linky with just the (+) button. Press it and read the screen. The information on the screen changes with each subsequent press of the same button. It cycles through all the available entries giving you a clear picture of your usage over time and the instantaneous values. For three phase systems there are nearly three times the number of readings. Probably the most important thing to remember is that if your power cuts out, for example when you overload the contracted supply, you must reset it by holding down the (+) button for three seconds. Linky will reset and your power is restored. An external power failure does not need you to do anything. The Linky goes back to normal automatically.
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Post by cernunnos on Dec 20, 2023 12:14:53 GMT 1
Our Linky is in a box at the side of the road about 25 meters from our house and disjoncteur , never actually seen it. If we " overload" the disjoncteur in the house trips , but it hasn't happened for a while.
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Post by lurcher on Dec 20, 2023 16:18:36 GMT 1
The Linky is very likely to be more sensitive than your disjuncture so there is a high probability that the Linky is triggered by a small overload. I think you would have to visit it and reset it. The supply around us has been very stable for several years until last month during the storms and we lost power for five hours. When the supply was turned back on we did not need to do anything.
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Post by cernunnos on Dec 20, 2023 18:30:58 GMT 1
Since the high tension line was up graded 25 years ago , we have had our own transformer which made an enormous change to the supply stability. When we demand too much power , the disjoncteur in the house trips , but never had to look at the Linky , so the disjoncteur must be set finer than the Linky .
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Post by dept71 on Dec 20, 2023 19:52:03 GMT 1
Thanks for the replies. Lurcher yours seem the clearest reply on what to do if it trips. So far it has not but there might be an occasion in the future that I use more watts then I should.
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