Crazy jump in day meter reading all of a sudden?!

AhhBisto · 13 Jul 2019 at 23:58

Just submitted my quarterly meter reading after I suspected they did a bad job.

Last quarter used 31kWh in the day and 1067. kWh in the night
This quarter 1129. kWh in the day and 332. kWh night

What's crazy is we should've used less since we're never home during the day atm and we do pretty much everything in the night.

Edit: also we haven't had the storage heaters on this qtr makes it even weirder.

Has anyone had the same issue since my day rate it's stupid high at 21.83p?

LuckyBenski · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:03

So your usage was previously 30x higher at night rate? Then currently 3x higher at day rate?

Have they moved the timings?

Is it because of British Summer Time/DST and all your consumption is around 6/7 o'clock?

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:08

LuckyBenski said:
So your usage was previously 30x higher at night rate? Then currently 3x higher at day rate?

Have they moved the timings?

Is it because of British Summer Time/DST and all your consumption is around 6/7 o'clock?

As far as we're aware no timings have changed, to be honest I don't even know what they are. We never received anything other then bills :/

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:12

So I just checked it's only changed by an hour for BST - 12:30am and 8:30am

To me I can't see how there would be such a significant jump.

Angilion · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:14

Are you sure the day and night readings are and were the right way around? On my meter, they're labelled 1 and 2. It's easy to get them the wrong way round, either by your own mistake or your supplier's mistake.

Brizzles · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:16

Neither of those reading look right.

Try reconnecting the jump leads to the lampost for a more accurate reading.

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:22

Angilion said:
Are you sure the day and night readings are and were the right way around? On my meter, they're labelled 1 and 2. It's easy to get them the wrong way round, either by your own mistake or your supplier's mistake.

Unfortunately, I take pictures with every reading as I have a terrible memory and it showing correct plus the energy company comes out and checks regularly as it's a block of flats.

Brizzles said:
Neither of those reading look right.

Try reconnecting the jump leads to the lampost for a more accurate reading.

This is Wales, will a Tilly lamp on a stick do?

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:29

Something is defo wrong there, what was the readings before them two? Put your last 5 readings in a spreadsheet.

Anything been left on or any new devices plugged in?

Brizzles · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:33

AhhBisto said:
This is Wales, will a Tilly lamp on a stick do?

Well as a Tilly runs of petrol ( or similar) , it probably wont help your bills.

Wales is great though, take that as a bonus.

Spent many days riding my motorbike around Wales, beautiful countryside and lovely people.

( Well unless you live in Swansea, but heh )

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:45

mrbell1984 said:
Something is defo wrong there, what was the readings before them two? Put your last 5 readings in a spreadsheet.

Anything been left on or any new devices plugged in?

Only been here since November, shows only estimates in first bills which we're all completely off.

Upgraded the computer to a Ryzen 7 1700 and Vega 56 but I don't really get time to use it much and plus I worked out even if it hit 650w 10 hours a day for 3 months it would only be £129 which it defiantly shouldn't be (if I've done maths right).

I've ordered a few smart plugs off amazon see if that can perhaps point to a problem. I've also taken a reading at 12:30 and I'll take one at 8:30 to see if the meter day and night is going up correct.

We're near Aberaeron and yep defiantly made me happy riding them everyday and hopefully again soon.

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:46

Yeh take readings every so often if you can. I hope power consumptions nowt to do with Ryzen tech lol

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:48

mrbell1984 said:
Yeh take readings every so often if you can. I hope power consumptions nowt to do with Ryzen tech lol

I'd like to think if it was pulling that much energy from a cheap corsair 650w would blow something up other then my bank balance.

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:49

AhhBisto said:
I'd like to think if it was pulling that much energy from a cheap corsair 650w would blow something up other then my bank balance.

That was just a jest to all the Ryzen users for upgrading early lol. You sure you actually entered the readings and these are not estimates? 100% sure?

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 00:50

mrbell1984 said:
That was just a jest to all the Ryzen users for upgrading early lol. You sure you actually entered the readings and these are not estimates? 100% sure?

These are readings taken by an engineer on the 9th and then by myself, no estimate I really wish it was.

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 05:25

Meter must be knackered, the night hasn't gone up but the day reading has. It's even printed on the front which was is day and night.

Double checked it again and my day unit has gone up 3 kwh in the night and night hasn't moved...looking at the figures it makes sense that the units have switched. I have double and triple checked the rates and taken pictures so hopefully they'll simply replace the meter and readjust the amount.

No idea how it's happened though, there was flooding in the meter room for a few months that was only just resolved. and I see someone has pulled away at the secure tamper shielding which I've taken a picture of.

djcj · 14 Jul 2019 at 10:14

AhhBisto said:
Last quarter used 31kWh in the day

This can't be right for a start. 31 kWh in 3 months is approximately 0.3 kWh per day. This isn't even enough to run a fridge/freezer (assuming you have one) let alone any other use on top of that. Are you sure the last quarter's bill wasn't estimated? and now you've supplied accurate readings it has resulted in a 'catch-up' bill?

This would mean the previous estimated bill had underestimated your day usage and overestimated your night usage.

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 13:22

djcj said:
This can't be right for a start. 31 kWh in 3 months is approximately 0.3 kWh per day. This isn't even enough to run a fridge/freezer (assuming you have one) let alone any other use on top of that. Are you sure the last quarter's bill wasn't estimated? and now you've supplied accurate readings it has resulted in a 'catch-up' bill?

This would mean the previous estimated bill had underestimated your day usage and overestimated your night usage.

It shouldn't be as the bills generated say actual readings and not estimated.

The meter is definatly faulty the day is going up during the night and the night is going up during the day.

And I did check what Reading should be taken as it's printed on the unit itself. And I've compared against the previous readings taking by myself and by their employee.

i know nothing · 14 Jul 2019 at 13:32

Not cheap growing cannabis, time to revisit your business plan and update your spreadsheet I suspect.

AhhBisto · 14 Jul 2019 at 13:44

i know nothing said:
Not cheap growing cannabis, time to revisit your business plan and update your spreadsheet I suspect.

Actually we're running our hydroponics off grid with the help of solar panels and a 19.2kwh powerbank because we're all about green energy

LuckyBenski · 14 Jul 2019 at 13:51

AhhBisto said:
green energy

I see what you did there :cool: