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That is insane!! It has to be a mistake.
I'm surprised the power company hasn't called the police. You must have a illegal business going on to use that much power. Are you growing something LOL?
Grandma
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01-24-2009 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by
meltodd69
That is insane!! It has to be a mistake.
I'm surprised the power company hasn't called the police. You must have a illegal business going on to use that much power. Are you growing something LOL?
They better not be LOL
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WOW! My whole house runs on electricity and I've never gone over $250.00 a month.
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Arent the numbers suppose to run backwards on a meter? You know, go down in value instead of up? If that is the case, there might be your problem.
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Originally Posted by
Quaker_Parrots
Arent the numbers suppose to run backwards on a meter? You know, go down in value instead of up? If that is the case, there might be your problem.
Actually, no, the values don't go down, they go up. Usually, electric meters have 5 digits. The digits are read right to left. Each one turns the opposite direction from the other, clockwise, counter-clockwise, clockwise, etc. Unless it is a digital meter, lol.
As I said earlier, there could be a couple of reasons for the high reading. If the meter was exchanged in the middle of the reading cycle, a fat finger when entering the reading or the meter could have gone bad.
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I bet someone just didn't enter all the numbers. If your former reading was 9500 I bet the new reading was 9600 and someone forgot to enter the zero's. Even though your DH read the meter and it now shows 0368 which means your BIL's RV is burning up a lot of power. That is not unusual if they are running heat or a/c plus the frig in electric instead of propane mode.
Either they read it wrong or the meter went haywire which does happen. They can put a device on the meter to show how much power is being used and when it spikes for a 24 to 48 hour period. I only know because we have done it at our office when our bill spiked to prove it wasn't us it was the meter.
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Dang! I would have for sure had a heart attack! I hope they get it figured out for you! I cant even imagine how an RV could use that much electricity. Something is wrong.
Stay sane! Hugs to ya!
"take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything..."DMB"
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Did you find out if it was a mistake or not? I hope it was and they take it off your bill.
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And here I got pissed off when my phone company cashed a $4500 check last year I wrote wrong!! lol
I wrote the 4500 in the box and the 100 on the line. So tech. it should have never cleared the bank since the bank is supposed to go by the line. but it did. Boy did i do some butt chewin.lol But they corrected everything.
Hope you get yours all worked out too. It only takes one screw up and believe me they are way more concious with you after that. lol
My "adopted" brother. Gone but not forgotten. 8/23/09
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that is crazy, any updates? I'm guessing they read it wrong as well, hopefully they can get it taken care of ASAP
If you don't want dumb answers, don't ask dumb questions
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I called this morning and was told that it would be passed to a different department and they would call me back later in the morning. I got a call within 10 minutes with an apology and the bill is $75.05. I still think that is quit high for an RV but I'm not paying it LOL
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