[solomondogs]

Good morning,

I have a little electric monitor, now I know these can be inaccurate, but I've checked this one over time and with separate appliances and its accurate to around 1%.

Over the last few weeks I've seen steady increase in electricity consumption over night and into the day, it started off at 25 watts and this morning the overnight consumption had increased to 155 watts. I can get my usage down to 0, the only thing I have switched on is my fridge and when thats not refrigerating it uses next to nothing.

I've worked with an electrician on site for 30 years, he had a look and at the time the meter was showing 0 so he couldn't test anything, however having explained the situation he was a bit puzzled. Today was the highest its been and its increasing by about 30% every few days.

This morning I plugged the monitor into a power station ad switched the entire house off and it was still showing usage of 155 watts. Western power have said its not their problem as its between their fuse and the house. In the absence of being able to talk to anyone from Eon I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and what the outcome may have been.

Many tanks in advance.

[JoeSoap]

@solomondogs

I'm not sure where to go with this. I have downloaded the Hildebrand Bright App which shows my energy consumption down to half-hourly intervals. My average overnight usage is in the region of 0.2 kW/hr. So about 200 watts every hour which is approaching 2kWh overnight. We have two fridges and two freezers and some small appliances on standby. By the time I get up and the standing charges have been applied there is over £2 showing on our IHD.

That may give you something to compare to.

[solomondogs]

@JoeSoap Thanks Joe, you have a lot more on than me, I’ve one fridge that draws 90 watts twice an hour or so for about 10 minutes each night and likewise through the day and that’s it, nothing else is on nothing on standby, that’s the same through the day as well when I’m out. Just had an electrician come by and he seems to think the problem is between the fuse box and the big fuse from the national grid, so Eons meter in other words.

unfortunately Eon are all but impossible to get hold of…

[JoeSoap]

@solomondogs

I don’t know for sure but Eon Next may want more evidence than an electrician seems to think…

I was wondering if you have an older wiring system where there may be some earth leakage or something. That would likely mean that if you had an RCD at your ‘fuse box’ it may be prone to nuisance tripping.

[solomondogs]

It’s only 20 years old, no mice problems (!), no tripping. Western power has said it’s nowt to do with them, quite correctly their responsibilities stop at the big fuse inside the box, sparky has indicated that without continued tripping it’s impossible to test so it’s more likely the problem will be with the meter; it’s possible there’s a short somewhere but if there is then it would trip the fuses…strange one and if it continues, expensive.

With then consumer unit switched off at the main trip it’s still drawing the same wattages so at the moment everything seems to point to a dodgy meter..

[JoeSoap]

@solomondogs

From distant memory it used to be possible to get a meter connected in series with the existing one to resolve complaints of dodgy meters. If it turned out to be not dodgy then I think the cost of the comparison fell to the customer.

It might be worth enquiring but maybe after the rush of calls regarding the October changes have subsided.

[theunknowntech]

Theunknowntech is lurking in the corner, waiting to pounce... Muhahahahahaha

[JoeSoap]

@theunknowntech

Spill the beans then…

[theunknowntech]

Please show me photos of all meters that you know of, I'll see what I can do. :)

[solomondogs]

@theunknowntech the problem has been resolved by an experienced electrician, can’t really go into details because I now have an issue with the previous electrician!