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I have two questions. Q1: What does controlled load exactly control? The electricity supply time or total power in the circuit or both? Q2: Essential energy says the max consumption is 160000kwh per year; however, my location is powered by ausgrid instead of Essential, and I cannot find such information on ausgrid website. So what is my max yearly consumption in CL2? Attached is captured from Essential energy website

According to what you said “Depending on how much hot water you use in the household, we wouldn't recommend hooking up multiple appliances to this register, as you may find yourself running out of hot water. ”,the total energy providing by Controlled Load 2 circuit seems a constant. It also seems the newly-plugin appliance have priority over water heaters. So I am just wondering, what does the Controlled Load 2 exactly control? Is that the total circuit current (ampere), in other words, total po ...

Q1:I’ve read my meters twice today.The left meter is for general usage, the readings are 22422/22424;The right meter is for controlled load 2, the readings are 13000/13003.I don’t understand today is Sunday why my general meter is still counting. Why not is the controlled load meter counting only? Q2:I am going to buy a large appliance but only use it about 10 hours/day, at night. I think using the controlled load 2 meter is the right choice. How can I connect the appliance to this circuit?