Massive electric usage

elaines1

Yesterday’s 

Gerry1

elaines1 said:

If I turn off the fuse box it stops the meter that’s why I’m so worried it’s me and I will be paying these bills 

But that's exactly what you want !!  Zero usage = Zero units recorded.

You can't switch the meter itself off, everything you can switch off is downstream from the meter.  Nor are you paying for the small amount of power that the meter consumes, e.g. when it lights up.

elaines1

Today’s pic

Gerry1

Looks like you may have missed the decimal point.  The reading is 0273.  You've used a whisker over 5kWh since yesterday, around £1.

Badly designed meters are just part of the Smart Meter Fiasco dividend ! 

elaines1

If I turn that off I’m sat in the dark with nothing at all on just having one light on sends it spinning 

Ultrasonic

Gerry1 said:

Looks like you may have missed the decimal point.  The reading is 0273.

Indeed. Whilst I can't actually see a decimal point in the first photo, that was probably 0268. So 5 kWh in a day, which is perfectly sensible  .

elaines1

No I haven’t utility have confirmed my readings I do it every month and so far today 600 units used how !!

QrizB

elaines1 said:

No I haven’t utility have confirmed my readings I do it every month and so far today 600 units used how !!

There will be a red light on your meter, in the middle of that circle you can see in the bottom-right corner of your second photo. It will be flashing. How many times does it flash in a minute? Or is it flashing too fast to count?

Ultrasonic

elaines1 said:

No I haven’t utility have confirmed my readings I do it every month and so far today 600 units used how !!

Do you have an electricity supply with different meters for day and night (or similar)? If not then you can't have used 600 kWh today as your second photo show an all-time total of only 273 kWh.

QrizB

Ultrasonic said:

elaines1 said:

No I haven’t utility have confirmed my readings I do it every month and so far today 600 units used how !!

Do you have an electricity supply with different meters for day and night (or similar)? If not then you can't have used 600 kWh today as your second photo show an all-time total of only 273 kWh.

But it's reading "total act import", this is the total not an individual register.