They seem to have 100A fuses fitted too, which suggests heavy loading is expected. At the start of the thread I pictured a single phase supply feeding one consumer unit! Tracing where the electricity is being used might take some time and require a bit of testing by an electrician. The standing charge for having 2 3phase supplies will be a fair bit too.
I was just looking at the fuse carriers, funny only the one has a label stating fuse size fitted? And its a newer one, too.
The older carries also say 100A, but not clear if that is what is fitted or the carrier limit.
Simple turn off all switch gear in house and garage, they will soon come running if that's the case.
thank you i really appreciate this, its stuff like this i wouldn't even have known to ask!
ok i need to check with the company that i installed the air source how to turn it off, i'm sure they will be happy to tell me as we are going nuts at them because we only installed it to see a reduction in the electricity bills!! i really appreciate your advice, i am desperate to get to the bottom of this!
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I'd get the place warm and then turn everything off for a bit and sit and watch the meter. If it goes up someone is leeching from you. I reckon one of those meters is running somewhere else and you're getting the bill.
At the rate you are paying for power if there is any mistake then it would pay for an electrician's call-out in only a couple of days!
that's a good idea!! is there any way they could be taking from me but somehow from inside my wiring network? which would explain why the meter readings are so high. my dec bill said i used 15,000kw of electricity. all of my heating and hot water is on air source!!
yes i totally agree, but i want to find somone who "gets" how to unravel this... i had a local sparky and he attached a monitor onto my 3 phases to monitor them but couldnt really work out anything!!
If someone on here is near you they should be able to do it. Don't post personal details but most of a post code ought to be enough.
i totally agree. my house used to be part of a farm, i think i am paying for their farm shop freezers and lights. would there be a way they could leech off me from inside my wire network, ie so it looks like from inside the house?
If one of those supplies did everything on that site in the past and is still connected up then yes.
I will ask for meter change, but they did this already, its not the meter, that's whay i don't understand if somone is going through my meter, or how that is possible
so i have tried this, and it matches, but i cannot see how this much usage is possible... i make toast , have a cuppa in the morning, nothing crazy!! and all my heating and hot water are now all on air source. i had assumed that maybe that was right is all my heat and water were on electric , but it has gone UP since having air source installed...
Turn the meter with the massive consumption off at the mains and see what still works inside your house.
he reported on the usage, which added up to the same as on the meter, (as he had clamps on each of the three phases on the meter) but couldn't explain why so high... so i'm thinking has someone managed to recently (or historically, given that my house was part of a bigger farm) get inside my wiring or my feed, so their stuff is going through my meter so usuage appears to be from inside my house, but is this possible?
Yeah it's almost certain that the one with normal consumption on it is her houses meter (three phase is still weird imo especially as it looks new) and the other one is powering someone else's gaff. I mean they could say they didn't realise but they must realise they never get a bill.
