ErickvWyngaard

Thank you for the feedback.
It seems like losing a bit of myself at the City Power office did something. This afternoon a technician phoned me and said he is on his why. When he got to my house he said that my wire to my meter has been stolen and he will replace it. I entered a tamper code and 10min later I loaded power. I'm really not sure what changed between this morning and this afternoon. I just praised the technician for his good deed. 

I did go to the offices, at some point the manager just left and the guy behind the counter stopped talking to me, and I didn't want to waist my time any further so I also left.
I took it up with my ward counselor last week, but nothing came from it.
I don't use a lot of power. I've used about R200 from August last year. I still ad a bit of credits left, luckily only R28. I wanted to load more, and that is when I realized that I've been cut off. 
Thanks, I will send a message to 702 and maybe Jacaranda as well and see if there is somebody that can help resolve this
 

Good day.
I stay in Randburg and is suppose to be getting power from City Power. I have have solar power and are on prepaid. Recently City Power has removed my circuit breaker without notifying me. After about 3 weeks of trying to understand what the reason was, I went to the City Power offices. They informed me that my circuit breaker was removed because I'm not using enough electricity. I now need to pay a penalty of R12000 to get reconnected. This is the same penalty you would pay if you had an illegal connection.

Firstly, a warning to prepaid customers, you need to load electricity every month, otherwise you will be flagged as "non-vending" and City Power will disconnect you.
Secondly, is this legal what they are doing? This feels like an illegal disconnection.
Is there anybody that can give me advise on how to get reconnected without paying the penalty.
Thank you

Not sure. I will tell him to get that done

Thank you for the feedback.
It seems like losing a bit of myself at the City Power office did something. This afternoon a technician phoned me and said he is on his why. When he got to my house he said that my wire to my meter has been stolen and he will replace it. I entered a tamper code and 10min later I loaded power. I'm really not sure what changed between this morning and this afternoon. I just praised the technician for his good deed. 

Thank you for the feedback.
It seems like losing a bit of myself at the City Power office did something. This afternoon a technician phoned me and said he is on his why. When he got to my house he said that my wire to my meter has been stolen and he will replace it. I entered a tamper code and 10min later I loaded power. I'm really not sure what changed between this morning and this afternoon. I just praised the technician for his good deed. 

Good day.
I stay in Randburg and is suppose to be getting power from City Power. I have have solar power and are on prepaid. Recently City Power has removed my circuit breaker without notifying me. After about 3 weeks of trying to understand what the reason was, I went to the City Power offices. They informed me that my circuit breaker was removed because I'm not using enough electricity. I now need to pay a penalty of R12000 to get reconnected. This is the same penalty you would pay if you had an illegal connection.

Firstly, a warning to prepaid customers, you need to load electricity every month, otherwise you will be flagged as "non-vending" and City Power will disconnect you.
Secondly, is this legal what they are doing? This feels like an illegal disconnection.
Is there anybody that can give me advise on how to get reconnected without paying the penalty.
Thank you

Good day.
I stay in Randburg and is suppose to be getting power from City Power. I have have solar power and are on prepaid. Recently City Power has removed my circuit breaker without notifying me. After about 3 weeks of trying to understand what the reason was, I went to the City Power offices. They informed me that my circuit breaker was removed because I'm not using enough electricity. I now need to pay a penalty of R12000 to get reconnected. This is the same penalty you would pay if you had an illegal connection.

Firstly, a warning to prepaid customers, you need to load electricity every month, otherwise you will be flagged as "non-vending" and City Power will disconnect you.
Secondly, is this legal what they are doing? This feels like an illegal disconnection.
Is there anybody that can give me advise on how to get reconnected without paying the penalty.
Thank you

Good day.
I stay in Randburg and is suppose to be getting power from City Power. I have have solar power and are on prepaid. Recently City Power has removed my circuit breaker without notifying me. After about 3 weeks of trying to understand what the reason was, I went to the City Power offices. They informed me that my circuit breaker was removed because I'm not using enough electricity. I now need to pay a penalty of R12000 to get reconnected. This is the same penalty you would pay if you had an illegal connection.

Firstly, a warning to prepaid customers, you need to load electricity every month, otherwise you will be flagged as "non-vending" and City Power will disconnect you.
Secondly, is this legal what they are doing? This feels like an illegal disconnection.
Is there anybody that can give me advise on how to get reconnected without paying the penalty.
Thank you

Hi Rich. below is a picture of a typical geyser element. The red arrow shows where your normal thermostat fits. You need to take out the original thermostat and replace it with the Sonoff probe. For this type of element, you will also need to put lugs on your Live and Natural wires going to the element, to make the electrical connection. With this type of element the lugs are part of the thermostat, so if you remove the thermostat, you loose your electrical connection.

I hope this helps. If you have a different element or something is unclear you can send me a photo and I will try to assist.

@mikeblackburnHome Assistant has a easy integration with Sonoff. You can have a look at this video. There has been some changes with HACS since this video was released, but it should give you a good idea where to start.
I've been using my TH16 on my geyser for almost two years now without a problem. I have a 2kW element in my geyser. 
If you have a smart circuit breaker you can do it as you describe above, but you will have to put in a second power supply for the sonoff TH16. Otherwise, if the circuit breaker switch off, the sonoff will also switch off and you won't be able to see the temperature