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solarsquirrel
Hi,
I'm not an electrician - just a normal homeowner looking for a little advice - hopefully you guys can help! I'm sorry this is quite long but I'm trying to give all relevant info!
We have a broken electric meter which will be replaced by our electric provider shortly (1st visit today only to hear they need a different meter so will come back). This has been broken for somewhere between 10 days (when we realised) and 5 weeks (last meter reading, since which the meter has moved but not very much, so we would guess at around 4 weeks broken)
We also have (discovered today) a broken solar power meter - which has been absolutely fine for over 4 years, but when I went to take this quarters reading today it was dead. I know in early August it was working as my father in law mentioned it was generating well.
We also have a broken freezer (as of approx 10 days ago - we removed ice cream from it midweek about when the meter broke and it was still frozen, but the following saturday everything had melted entirely - its in the garage, hard to be more specific I'm afraid). This is 4 years old and no previous problems. The repair guy who also came today and also needs to come back with a part says the "bit on the back" (his words) which controls the frost free functioning has gone and something illegible which probably included "thermostat"
This all seems to be a *huge* co-incidence to me.
We have had several 4 hour plus power cuts over this summer - specifically around 4-8 weeks ago and a couple where they rigged a generator for a while and the put us back on the grid several hours later. we also had a strange power blip around, you guessed it, 10 days ago, where everything dipped and wavered for 3 or 4 minutes about 6am but clocks etc didn't need resetting afterwards.
I think our main meter was broken before this last blip. The freezer not, The solar meter I really don't know.
TV's lightbulbs, anything else connected to power seems to be ok at present.
So - question - can power cuts or *something* result in failed meters? And freezers?
And if it can, where should I look to track down what has happened and what do I need to assemble to prove my case? I am assuming if we can prove cause and effect our rapidly growing bills might be covered in some way by someone?
I'm not an electrician - just a normal homeowner looking for a little advice - hopefully you guys can help! I'm sorry this is quite long but I'm trying to give all relevant info!
We have a broken electric meter which will be replaced by our electric provider shortly (1st visit today only to hear they need a different meter so will come back). This has been broken for somewhere between 10 days (when we realised) and 5 weeks (last meter reading, since which the meter has moved but not very much, so we would guess at around 4 weeks broken)
We also have (discovered today) a broken solar power meter - which has been absolutely fine for over 4 years, but when I went to take this quarters reading today it was dead. I know in early August it was working as my father in law mentioned it was generating well.
We also have a broken freezer (as of approx 10 days ago - we removed ice cream from it midweek about when the meter broke and it was still frozen, but the following saturday everything had melted entirely - its in the garage, hard to be more specific I'm afraid). This is 4 years old and no previous problems. The repair guy who also came today and also needs to come back with a part says the "bit on the back" (his words) which controls the frost free functioning has gone and something illegible which probably included "thermostat"
This all seems to be a *huge* co-incidence to me.
We have had several 4 hour plus power cuts over this summer - specifically around 4-8 weeks ago and a couple where they rigged a generator for a while and the put us back on the grid several hours later. we also had a strange power blip around, you guessed it, 10 days ago, where everything dipped and wavered for 3 or 4 minutes about 6am but clocks etc didn't need resetting afterwards.
I think our main meter was broken before this last blip. The freezer not, The solar meter I really don't know.
TV's lightbulbs, anything else connected to power seems to be ok at present.
So - question - can power cuts or *something* result in failed meters? And freezers?
And if it can, where should I look to track down what has happened and what do I need to assemble to prove my case? I am assuming if we can prove cause and effect our rapidly growing bills might be covered in some way by someone?
