Off peak power

[riddick]

I was showing the LEAF to someone at the Coburg meet and mentioning that I charge from off peak power, when he commented that I should be careful as with daylight savings off peak shifts from 11pm-7am to 12am-8 am.

I was a bit shocked as my timer is set to start just after 11 am.  I called my electricity company this morning and they confirmed that some meters do not adjust their daylight saving times.  I went out and checked mine and sure enough, it was still showing standard times.

On most nights, the Leaf ends up charging for 2 hours, so this means that we have been charging on peak power for half of our use!!  That is a nasty surprise!

I recommend for everyone to check their meter timing.  I think I will just leave mine to permanently start after midnight!

I guess the only consolation is that it is lucky that we have found it out at the start of daylight saving and not at the end...  However, early this year we had it all wrong!

[gabzimiev]

to my understanding of NSW is that the meter stays non DST time and when the meter is read they then add one hour to everything when they process it before your billed.

[Jim Hare]

I always set my timer to 1am to avoid all of it. My charger can do the entire car in about 5 hours so doesn't really make a difference to me. Usually it has 30% to start and I only charge to 80% so it probably only goes for a couple of hours anyway.

[Phoebe]

I noticed my meter didn't adjust for Daylight Saving but I charge off solar during the day, so it doesn't bother me.

[riddick]

My retailer suggested that if the meter did not adjust, then they will not compensate for daylight savings afterwards.

Perhaps I could ring the network people, but I tend to go with what Jim said and perhaps it is best to plan for the 12am - 7am time slot to avoid any nasty surprises.

[jeffjl]

What be this "Daylight savings" thing?

Another reason why the West should not go that path.