Eon Meter Issue

Verdigris

Kilowatt-hours (kWh) always creep up. It is the function of power over time.

Gerry1

Philbellwood78 said:

Elec was pegged at around 0.850kWh

after everything was back on it was hovering around 0.350kWh as have seen before.

will see if it creeps back up.

Help !  The digital display on my dashboard tells me my speed is 057512 miles per hour, even when the handbrake is on ! 

Philbellwood78

Verdigris said:

Kilowatt-hours (kWh) always creep up. It is the function of power over time.

But I’d you have a fridge and a to on and say they dray 150w per hour. If they are on for 15 hours they should not creep up to using say 250w?

Philbellwood78

Verdigris said:

Kilowatt-hours (kWh) always creep up. It is the function of power over time.

Gerry1 said:

Philbellwood78 said:

Elec was pegged at around 0.850kWh

after everything was back on it was hovering around 0.350kWh as have seen before.

will see if it creeps back up.

Help !  The digital display on my dashboard tells me my speed is 057512 miles per hour, even when the handbrake is on ! 

Not sure I am not explaining correctly it was kWh current load. 

Gerry1

As others have explained, load (power drawn) is an instantaneous value and is measured in plain watts or kilowatts.  Think of a lightbulb that's marked 100W or a one-bar electric fire that's marked 1kW: whether you look at them for 1 second, 1 minute or 1 day, they're always 100W and 1kW, the markings won't change over time.

However, the energy used will certainly increase over time.  After one hour the electric fire will have used 1kWh, after 10 hours it will have drawn 10kWh etc.

Just as with the car's dashboard, it's important not to get your units muddled up.  Things will go pear-shaped if you tell a buyer your car has 70 miles on the clock or if you think you're travelling at 57,512mph, and it's just the same if you get your meter figures confused.

QrizB

Despite everyone's claimed confusion, we can understand what you're saying.

• Before you turned everything off, your in-home display was showing a load of around 850 watts.
• After you switched it all off and back on again, it was showing 350 watts.

850 watts with nothing special going on is a pretty high load. 350 watts is more reasonable. What would be useful to work out is which appliance(s) account for that extra 500 watts.

If you check your in-home display just before going to bed, or immediately after you wake up, you will get an idea of your phantom load (the things that are always on). Ideally this will be less than 200 watts (mine is around 100 watts) but it might look higher than that if you catch it at a time that eg. your fridge is running.

If your phantom load is 100 watts, it will be using almost 900 kwh per year and costing you £180. If it's 200 watts you can double that.

Philbellwood78

Just an update. I have had two Gas engineers and two Electricians round and all say the meters are over reading.

£2+ to run a bath
Elec meter is out by a  percentage of the usage

Philbellwood78

Eon will not check the meters as they are moving accounts over to Eon Next. So they want £520 a month until they get the meters checked.

Any advice?