Making this quick for now.
I went to pay my electric bill tonight, and took a quick glance at this month's usage (what will be next month's bill). One day has spiked above and beyond what we have even used this whole week. Not only that, it was one hour, between 6 and 7 am, saying that I used 180 KW. I usually hover between 0.3 at night, to up to 6 KW in any given hour, IF the air is blasting. Yes, I live in Phoenix, yes it's hot. Even when it's hot, I rarely reach 6 KW. I am a scrooge, grinch, whatever.
So, if I can't reach 6 KW in the middle of summer, how in the depths of hell, do they expect me to have used 180 KW in one hour at 6 am on October 15!?! I have been opening windows for the past week, so the air has run even less...
Another weird thing, is that throughout every other hour of that day, the website shows 0.1-0.2 KW of use. The fish tank alone does that, so it's like they weren't even recording anything else.
It's fishy. It's wrong. I called. The polite lady informed me that there was nothing she could do until the bill generated, then I'd have to dispute it. I was hoping that catching it early would have given me a little bit of time to get it troubleshot. She said she'd have someone look at the meter, but it read fine for yesterday. So, it's not like they're going to find any errors.
I don't know the history of this place, but some of the wiring is pretty ghetto. Instead of a double junction box, anywhere, they just have a bunch of single outlets close to each other. There is a GFCI outlet in the bathroom that actually has a ground fault downstream, and refuses to work, even with a brand new outlet. I believe it is what the swamp cooler used to be hooked up to.
Any thoughts? Opinions? Advice? :itsok:
not sleeping anyway, math edit.
P=IV
182 (KW) = 182,000 (W)
182000 (W)= I*120 (V)
I = 1516.67 (Amps)
Fifteen hundred amps. Let's think about that for a second. My entire house has a 200 amp breaker.
Someone smarter, feel free to correct me, but with my main breaker, I can't load more than 200 amps at any given moment.
From wikipedia: " one watt is the rate at which work is done when one ampere (A) of current flows through an electrical potential difference of one volt (V)."
So, my rate of work done was 182 KW, through a 120 V potential, for the time span of one hour. is that 1500 amps constant through the whole hour then? My house wouldn't even be able to do that...
I went to pay my electric bill tonight, and took a quick glance at this month's usage (what will be next month's bill). One day has spiked above and beyond what we have even used this whole week. Not only that, it was one hour, between 6 and 7 am, saying that I used 180 KW. I usually hover between 0.3 at night, to up to 6 KW in any given hour, IF the air is blasting. Yes, I live in Phoenix, yes it's hot. Even when it's hot, I rarely reach 6 KW. I am a scrooge, grinch, whatever.
So, if I can't reach 6 KW in the middle of summer, how in the depths of hell, do they expect me to have used 180 KW in one hour at 6 am on October 15!?! I have been opening windows for the past week, so the air has run even less...
Another weird thing, is that throughout every other hour of that day, the website shows 0.1-0.2 KW of use. The fish tank alone does that, so it's like they weren't even recording anything else.
It's fishy. It's wrong. I called. The polite lady informed me that there was nothing she could do until the bill generated, then I'd have to dispute it. I was hoping that catching it early would have given me a little bit of time to get it troubleshot. She said she'd have someone look at the meter, but it read fine for yesterday. So, it's not like they're going to find any errors.
I don't know the history of this place, but some of the wiring is pretty ghetto. Instead of a double junction box, anywhere, they just have a bunch of single outlets close to each other. There is a GFCI outlet in the bathroom that actually has a ground fault downstream, and refuses to work, even with a brand new outlet. I believe it is what the swamp cooler used to be hooked up to.
Any thoughts? Opinions? Advice? :itsok:
not sleeping anyway, math edit.
P=IV
182 (KW) = 182,000 (W)
182000 (W)= I*120 (V)
I = 1516.67 (Amps)
Fifteen hundred amps. Let's think about that for a second. My entire house has a 200 amp breaker.
Someone smarter, feel free to correct me, but with my main breaker, I can't load more than 200 amps at any given moment.
From wikipedia: " one watt is the rate at which work is done when one ampere (A) of current flows through an electrical potential difference of one volt (V)."
So, my rate of work done was 182 KW, through a 120 V potential, for the time span of one hour. is that 1500 amps constant through the whole hour then? My house wouldn't even be able to do that...