Electricity usage skyrocketed? Faulty meter?

D_M_E

Switch on a timeclock?

You need to watch the meter when the timeclock kicks in - this could well be the culprit.

The meter using .225 kwh with everything turned off is also suspicious - at this rate that's about a unit every 4 hours being used or about 6 units a day or about 2000 a year, so either there is something still turned on or you have a fault with the meter.

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The meter posted in the link looks like an Eco 7 meter ( rate 2 is displayed ) has your meter more than one reading ?. You say you have no heating ( gas central heating I assume ), Eco 7 meters are usually fitted in all electric properties.

cakster

D_M_E wrote: »

Switch on a timeclock?

You need to watch the meter when the timeclock kicks in - this could well be the culprit.

The meter using .225 kwh with everything turned off is also suspicious - at this rate that's about a unit every 4 hours being used or about 6 units a day or about 2000 a year, so either there is something still turned on or you have a fault with the meter.

Yes the time clock has the ability to be either in off, on or automatic mode. Much like the little timer plugs you can buy to control household appliances. This timeclock is simply off. Permanently, all the time.

The meter isn't using .225kwh with everything off. It's using nothing with everything off. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

UKSBD

Is everything switched off now?


I'm pretty sure the meter reading is still the same in that photo now as it was when I saw it a few hours ago

cakster

Good joke. Enjoyed it, 9/10 A++++ would titter again! :-)

bsod

cakster wrote: »

about 8 6' fluorescent tubes on 9-5.

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Growing specialist plants or chickens?

say 70 watts each, that's about a fifth of your 10k pa, get led's

cakster

OK, funny as the jokes are, could we just have serious replies from here on? Thank you. Sorry to be a party pooper but I'm really quite stressed about this bill.

bsod

who's making the jokes, why would you need 8 6ft tubes on in a domestic property during daylight hours in the uk, a tv on whilst asleep, and live in a house with no fridge, no freezer, no heating and the water heating permanently switched off, and at 5pm every day, everything goes off.

Steptoe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YiXsuyYa4c

cakster

Maybe because it's a retail business, sherlock.

If you haven't got anything nice to say, please don't say anything at all.

The business operates from a domestic property but isn't lived in as such. I didn't call it a business premises because that would instantly get people thinking about warehouses or retail units and that would get people thinking along the wrong tracks.

bsod

is that maybe, or maybe not

I had something nice to say, did some maths for you, suggested led's, and requested more detail, For some reason you dismissed this as a joke, and avoided the question.

If you want help, you'll get further by posting full and accurate information rather than vague and misleading tidbits. Missing, misleading or changing facts are one thing certain to get people thinking along the wrong tracks.

wattage of lights
why is the tv/monitor on 24 hours, wattage?
wattage of pc
alarm?
what else?