On 6/6/2006 12:01 AM, Rick Carlson wrote:
It is very prosaic to speculate that an occult run from behind my meter to the house next door is the cause of my problem but in the real world that probably is not the cause. I do not hold much faith in that being the case. I do however have little faith in contractors who hire unlicensed help or who do not themselves have the qualifications to do wiring to code. I have even worked along side of people who have passed the California Electrical Contractors license exam that I would not trust to wire a table lamp. I did not put in this pool and it was over 26 years ago. I have no reason to believe that it was done correctly.
Have you timed one revolution of the aluminum disk in the meter? (Assuming you have an old electromechanical meter). On the face of the meter you should find the meter constant printed, something like Kh 7.2 . This means that each rotation of the disk is 7.2 watt-hours. So if it takes one hour for one revolution, you're consuming 7.2 watts. If it takes one minute, thats 7.2 * 60 = 432 watts.
By turning off each breaker in turn and timing the rotation of the disk you can figure out how much power each circuit is consuming. Then make sure it correlates with what you know is plugged in. Turn off intermittent loads like the fridge while testing.
By the way, this is RMS power and (assuming the gears in the meter are working properly and it's being read properly) should represent what you're being billed for.
Karl Cunningham -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
