Old thread that came up when a reply today with spam link contained, reported that along with 3 other such replies after the one from Tony back in 2020.
Anyway, FWIW now, some 4 years later . . .
We've had solar a touch over a year, back then we had an old analogue meter on single tariff, and a CL meter for off peak HWS use, metered separately.and of course, had to have the new digital meter put in for the solar 2 way info.
As we didn't know any better about what the upgrade entailed, SAPN here in SA came out and installed 2 new smart meters, one for general usage, and one for CL usage.
The CL one just operates at usual off peak type times and / or solar soak hours tariff (not our solar though), and knowing that now, we should have asked for the single new meter, with HWS on regular circuit, and then got a timer or Catch Power fitted so we could time it for say 0930 - 1600 for free HW, or in the wee hours 0000 - 0600 if needed for top off winter when we have an 8c/kwh deal.
As it is now, we have a sparky booked for 2 days time to finally put the HWS onto normal circuit with a basic dumb timer we can adjust to suit our very low needs for HW.
It was costing us around $1.40 a day for HWS power, doesn't sound much, but that still adds a $100 or so to the quarterly bill.
When we get a battery, that will all be a moot point, but that might be months away, or, we might find we can defer a battery another 12 months.
(I'm determined, within reason, to get 100% self sufficient with electricity use.)
