Enlight Sienna SSP DIN-R PLC Prepaid Electricity Meter

[krieg]

Enlight Sienna SSP

This is the new prepaid electricity meter City of Cape Town is installing. Attached is the short codes one can use with the meter. They also physically attach a lock to the outside meter box which is very stupid.

 

[itareanlnotani]

Enlight Sienna SSP

This is the new prepaid electricity meter City of Cape Town is installing. Attached is the short codes one can use with the meter. They also physically attach a lock to the outside meter box which is very stupid.

Why is that stupid?

Its a split meter.

Head end at the consumer side. No-one should be messing with the outside meter box except for CoCT or Eskom employee's.

 

[krieg]

Why is that stupid?

Its a split meter.

Head end at the consumer side. No-one should be messing with the outside meter box except for CoCT or Eskom employee's.

I'm talking about the utility box against the house which is not COCT property. As for why I would want to access it, it contains the main isolator for the incoming supply, the neutral and earth blocks are located there if I want to add another high supply cable, best place to add incoming surge protection, can't measure loop impedance accurately, adding a secondary meter. I stay in a place with a lot of wood, basically everything from the second story upwards is wood and all the electrical runs either in wooden walls or underneath wooden floors. In case of an electrical fire it is much safer to isolate the electrical supply outside rather than from the centre of the house.

 

[itareanlnotani]

I'm talking about the utility box against the house which is not COCT property. As for why I would want to access it, it contains the main isolator for the incoming supply, the neutral and earth blocks are located there if I want to add another high supply cable, best place to add incoming surge protection, can't measure loop impedance accurately, adding a secondary meter. I stay in a place with a lot of wood, basically everything from the second story upwards is wood and all the electrical runs either in wooden walls or underneath wooden floors. In case of an electrical fire it is much safer to isolate the electrical supply outside rather than from the centre of the house.

If its a utility box - its owned by them, not you, so they are within their rights to lock it.

You should really have your own db inside the house if you want to do stuff, sounds a bit strange that you don't have one.

 

[krieg]

If its a utility box - its owned by them, not you, so they are within their rights to lock it.

You should really have your own db inside the house if you want to do stuff, sounds a bit strange that you don't have one.

If you build a house you buy it to house the meter they don't install or supply it. It is physically built into the house. The metering control unit is now in place of the old postpaid meter in the utility box, then it goes inside the house to the customer interface unit which then feeds the DB.