Prepaid meter runs fast, Using a prepaid electricity meter is one of the easiest ways to keep track of your electricity consumption at home or at work. It actually pays to have one due to the sudden exorbitant bills power distribution companies could bring to a user at any point in time. But then another trouble could set in if you are running out of power so soon.
The question most people ask is “Why does my prepaid meter run fast” despite buying prepaid a few days ago. Here are 5 Simple Ways of Setting up your Prepaid Meter from Running out so Fast.
How to reduce prepaid consumption
Go Energy Saving
Making use of energy-saving appliances helps in reducing the chunky rate of power consumption. When you need to make any purchase of your regular appliances go for only energy efficient appliances. Appliance A and Appliance B could be the same thing but their energy consumption may not be the same. This is usually reflected in their prices. Conventionally the more the energy efficiency of an appliance, the more expensive it is. However, the money pays back itself from the energy consumption. Always look at the wattage or power of the gadget and see if it is worth your money.
Be Conservative
When your electrical appliances are not in use, it is advised you turn them off. Sometimes we tend to leave our TVs and other appliances on standby mode. While this may be a trendy thing to do, it is not a good energy conservation principle. In some homes, the accumulation of appliances on standby mode could be enough to power a small fridge.
Go for LED TVs
Making use of LED appliances helps to reduce the rate of energy consumption which of course reflects on your meter reading. Replace the LCD TVs at home with LED TVs. LCDs consume as much times the energy an equivalent LED TV will consume. The beauty of LED is that you can even control and set the power consumption to lower levels yourself using the ecologically friendly mode.
Go For Digital Inverter Technology
When you have appliances with compressors, look out to see if it is inverter inverter-compliant. It is usually written on the surface of some products like washing machines and refrigerators. For ACs, LG has led the way in this technology with its innovative LG Inverter V Gen Cool cooling unit. Inverter-compliant compressors save more energy. You’ve just saved yourself some money on the next electricity bill.
The Thermostat of Fridges.
A refrigerator will use less electricity if its thermostat is reset to a higher (warmer) temperature. Owing to the single-evaporator design of most refrigerators, a change of temperature in the freezer compartment generally results in a temperature change in the fresh-food compartment Grimes and others. Once the target (preset) temperature is reached, the thermostat automatically switches off the gadget.
How to check ECG prepaid balance
You can check your ECG prepaid meter balance either by using the ECG Ghana app or with their shortcode.
How to check ECG prepaid balance with the app
Install the ECG app from the app store
Create an account with your email, phone number, and password
Click on the + icon to add your meter details
Then click on Check balance
How to check ECG prepaid balance with a shortcode
You can check your ECG prepaid meter balance by dialing their shortcode *226# and following the onscreen instructions
How to stop the prepaid meter from beeping under NEDCo
At an earmarked low credit threshold of Ghc10, both the meter and the CIU/UIU signal beep regularly, and also, the credit balance displayed LED light turned from green to block red; this is a caution that the customer is running out of credit. By punching “813” on the CIU/UIU, the beep can be stopped as the customer proceeds to use the remaining credit on the meter and reload later.
How to check prepaid balance under NEDCo
The credit balance can be checked by entering “801” on the CIU/UIU device which will be mounted in an accessible space for the customer. Several other details can be checked on the meter through the CIU/UIU at the convenience of the customer.
How to reboot prepaid meter under NEDCo
Meanwhile, beyond the warning described as a beep when running low on credit, the meter automatically cuts the power supply to the customer when credit falls to Ghc5.00 which serves as a final warning. However, the customer can restore power by punching “813” on the CIU/UIU to reboot the meter and use the remaining credit or load more credit. The next warning which will be received upon failure to reload credit will be a permanent cut signaling that credit has been exhausted.
How to borrow credit under NEDCo
However, notwithstanding the cautions and subsequent cut of power supply, the new Hexing smart pre-payment meter allows the customer to borrow credit up to Gh10.00 by punching “811” on the CIU/UIU. The borrowed credit will be deducted upon the next power purchase.
