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FAULTY SUPPLY COMPANY METER METER

John Peckham
I have power logged shed loads of supplies over the years to investigate if a supply company meter is faulty. I have never found a faulty meter. I have found a lot of waste, lack of understanding of what it costs to run various loads and supplies to other users from the complaints supply.


You will know from reading my posts that I had a new E& meter fitted in October and had to have a dumb meter fitted as the supply company does not provide Smart 5 hole meters. Since having the meter fitted the account bill has rocketed to something like 5 times the cost of the old meter readings.


So over the last couple of days I power logged the supply and low and behold the meter is over reading on rate 1(daytime) and under reading on rate 2 (night time).  


At first Scottish Power said I would have to pay for a check meter to be fitted and I said no I can send you my recorded readings. They have now agreed to fit a new meter in 3 weeks time and after 3 consecutive meter readings they would recalculate the bill.


So my new meter is very dumb in more ways than one.
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    John Peckham:

    Chris


    That does seem rather high unless you have a huge house.


    You might want a campaign of turning off all those tiny insignificant loads when not in use such as phone chargers, electronic equipment left on standby etc as all the small loads add up. I assume you are now all LED lighting including outside lighting? 




    The house is fairly large, but apart from extra luminaires, I don't see why that should make much difference. With the lights all off, the CH off, no laundry or dishwashing underway, consumption right now is about 1.6 A.


    The lights are mostly CFL or LED.


    Yes, I suspect that all those power bricks and TVs, etc. on standby do add up. I just have this irrational fear that somewhere somethings hasn't been turned off for 20-odd years.

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    John Peckham:

    Chris


    That does seem rather high unless you have a huge house.


    You might want a campaign of turning off all those tiny insignificant loads when not in use such as phone chargers, electronic equipment left on standby etc as all the small loads add up. I assume you are now all LED lighting including outside lighting? 




    The house is fairly large, but apart from extra luminaires, I don't see why that should make much difference. With the lights all off, the CH off, no laundry or dishwashing underway, consumption right now is about 1.6 A.


    The lights are mostly CFL or LED.


    Yes, I suspect that all those power bricks and TVs, etc. on standby do add up. I just have this irrational fear that somewhere somethings hasn't been turned off for 20-odd years.

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