Smart Meter using electricity

eddddy

scoittishmovies said:

the actual meter only has 5 digits and is 00006. On the remote device it shows up 3 decimal places 00006.348

Just to clarify - the smart meter itself won't be using 'your' electricity. In simple terms, It will be connected to to electricity supply before it passes through the meter.

I suspect the spinning disc in the old analogue meters used more electricity than a smart meter. And if you had a spinning disc analogue meter previously, apparently they can be inaccurate at very low current (like you have). So maybe you were underpaying previously.


But you mention a 'remote device' - I guess that's plugged into one of your sockets (as opposed to being battery operated), so that will be using your electricity.

doodling

Hi,

No-one has done the maths here.

55ma at 240V is 13.2W (assuming a power factor of 1, debatable on such a low load but we don't have any better information.

13.2W for 24 hours is 316.8Wh

For 28 days that is 8870.4Wh I.e. 8.87kWh.

Your new meter is under-reading slightly, your old meter was under-reading a lot!