Hi, I’m having a serious issue with my electricity, the meter trips with error LLR ( line load reversal). I have to physically go to the meter box and reconnect the keypad to the meter to power on my electricity again. 
 

howver if there is a light on in the house then there is no trip. As soon as I switch off all lights there is a trip saying LLR. I have no other devices plugged in such as fridge as I have not moved in yet. 
 

please help. 

You'll have to be more specific with what equipment you've got installed bud....

I have a conlog BEC44 meter. I do not have any solar or inverters installed

It sounds to me like your meter is over sensitive (and therefore faulty), picking up a slight "spike" in the reverse direction when you drop even a slight load. Get the municipality / energy provider to replace it.

The municipality has come to check it out. Now it turns out it’s not the meter. They put the my load line into another meter and it tripped that meter as well. However, when they test my load line they find not fault in the cable. What could cause a cable to test 100% but still cause load reversal error on the meter? 

As per the manual, the meter is seeing current flowing from your home (the load) towards the municipality (supply). 

The meter is configured to pick this up in the event that it was installed incorrectly, or if someone is trying to tamper with the meter for fraudulent purposes.

If, as you state, you do not have anything feeding back to the grid such as an inverter, then the meter, for some reason, is seeing the slight spike (that is caused by the load being switched off) as grid feedback. Get an electrician to check your home's wiring and if he is happy with it, get the muni to swop the meter (preferably with another less sensitive model).   

 

thank you for the feedback. please also note that even if all the switches in my db box is off inlcuding the mains, plugs, lights etc it still trips. I have called an electrician and he is saying it could be a earth and neutral wire on either the stove, geyser or heat pump that is tripping the meter with the line/load reversal error. do you think this is possible?

hello, I have recently moved into a sectional title flat that is newly built. At the moment there are no appliances plugged in. the only things connected are a stove, geyser and heat pump and lights. 

whenever i switch on the lights for about 5 minutes and then switch them off after a few seconds the meter in the meter box outside trips. although no breaker trips or falls either in the DB box or the meter box outside. I then have push the breaker switch outside in the meter box down wait for a click sound, push it up again and connect the meter again for the power to come back. this has also happened once when i was only usng a drill at different plug points. i would use the drill then leave it on the floor after use then the meter would trip again. 

please note nothing in the house is drawing power at the moment there is no appliances plugged in (example fridge, freezer etc)

so my thinking is that when there is a load being used inside the house and then i switch off that load, there is left over power in the cables that travels back through the load line and trips the meter. 

I have tested everything even totally disconnected the geyser, stove and heatpump at the DB box and it still trips. 

what could be causing this extra energy to be going back through the load line?

do you think that if i had something always pulling a load such as fridge on that the extra energy will flow to the fridge and not back to the meter box. 

 

please help