starboy1928
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Hello I’m not an electrician but need your help. I recently moved into a new home and since moving in the electric meter readings were extremely high, like 3-4x my usage in my previous home. I checked with the previous energy supplier and the previous owner was using about 5x less per month than the readings I was getting. Appliances are built in so i inherited them and I didn’t change timer settings on things like heaters plus it’s summer. I called the energy supplier and they fitted me with a new smart meter. Since installing the smart meter my usage has been cut in half so there was definitely a problem with the old meter but it’s still very high based on usage. I started testing appliance against smart meter readings and can see when an appliance is turned on the usage increases but when I turn the appliance off it can take hours for usage to return to normal even if I unplug the appliance. If I switch the appliance off at the board the usage will immediately go back to normal. Also during sleeping hours I’m getting very high usage which should be minimal. My question is how accurate are smart meters at showing real time electric energy usage? Also could there be a fault with either wiring or the board that could cause increased energy usage and how would I go about finding that with an electrician?