How to slow down your electric meter.

:rushbam: I want to throw a couple punches in there too. Nice avatar pic by the way.
We need a different change

ARE YOU ON CRACK ??????

Dont forget the big difference between LCD an LED TV's

^^^^^^^THIS!!!

This method saves you thousands! Only works if you have a meter with a wheel in it - you get a tiny drill..tiniest drillbit you can find...drill a hole in the SIDE of the meter, then get a piece of thin wire , looped one end as a 'handle' (so the wire doesnt accidently slip all the way in)...push the wire in so it sits ontop of the wheel and jams it STILL!

If your meter is in the house you're laughing...before a reading just slip out the pin...if you get people call round to read your meter..(put a sticker over the hole if visible)

..if it's outside in a box...risks of the pin being found are higher so either 'gate-in'the meter if possible or just use the 'pin' at night! hahaa :-)

Check out this testimonial

SurgeX Pro is a SCAM. Power Factor Correctors like this only help in factories running LOTS of electric motors!
TRUST ME I was fooled by all the "testimonials" and paid like $250 for the damn thing. Didn't change my KW usage one fucking BIT. Don't get fooled by these bastards. Have you seen ONE poster on here saying that they are saving $$$ by having one? Nope.

Total Fucking Scam for a residential application. Get a water heater timer.....now that WILL save you $$$.

Holy Jocelyn Wildenstein. Fake teeth, fake hair, fake lips, fake boobs!! AHGHHH!

blue ridge electric located in young harris ga supply the electric to a cabin in nc where i spend the summer. They are cheating me big time and deliberately. The cabin is 900 square feet. I have a 15 gallon water heater, a 1/2 hp pump one refrigerator lights and a small tv and computer used once in a while. I work out of state 3 days a week flea marketing i turn everything off at the circuit breakers when i am gone except for the refrigerator. my bill is over a l00 dollars a month. people with families and washer dryer freezer heat a/c etc are paying not much more. I have talked to these people and they are ignorant refusing to even discuss the matter they recently changed the meters (again) this time to digital so they can read them from the office. I tried to get help from rural electrification in raleigh this man name of elkins is also ignorant and refuses to discuss the matter intelligently. I am a senior and I now have a 389 dollar bill even thoough i paid through october and turned off the power december 4/10 they just sent me another bill for 40.27 even though the readings show the same for the previous month. The man at blue ridge, aikina, hung up on me would not discuss it. I don't know where to go to resolve this. I think it is a vendetta I have had problems with them since buying the cabin first there were wires over the house they refused to remove and made me pay to have them removed. They flooded a cabin I own across the road by turning the power on when it was winterized they have butchered my trees and the meter is rigged I jknow. Elkins in Raleigh told me the old meters were running too slow so they had to change them adding they could go back and charge you the difference yet my meter was tested in this period and they said it was ok any suggestions would be appreciated ruth nelson

Thanks for that very informative opinion on this matter. However, not everyone in this country can move to "bent-armpit" Anytown, USA, to reduce their electric bill.

Perhaps you could limit your responses to that which would actually benefit your intended audience?

Nighty night, princess.

Rodger that. Fixate on a fake woman. If you're lucky, you won't notice your right hand going limp, while the right side of your brain ignores every common sense impulse to ignore its Left.

You cannot multiply wealth !

all you can do is find a 'greater fool', and get his money in your pocket.

rip him off, that's how you 'multiply wealth'.

they leak bad bad stuff when running, not just when breaking. new german research. better use LEDs.

btw. our german electric meters can be slowed to a standstill (until 600W/h then it starts slowly spinning again) with a 400kg neodymium magnet - costs 30€.

guess you didn't hear about this...

the fuckers can JUST PRINT ALL THEY WANT TO.

and giant corp.s, THAT DON'T EVEN NEED IT, like exxon mobil, goldman sacks, etc.,

GET WAY MORE HANDOUTS THAN THE POOR DO.

IT IS NOT WATER, IT CAN'T 'LEAK OUT' THAT WAY.
it travels on WIRES, NOT AIR.

and the 2 bulbs couldn't care less about a dead bulb, or a third good one, in the 3rd socket.

Can't you still get shocked sticking your fingers up into an empty socket while the fixture is on? It may not be escaping into the room, as it were, but the wires in there could still be 'hot,' especially in those older fixtures.

There's always at least one relative to dupe us into checking 'why a light won't go on' and then, ZAP! until we learn to disbelieve them when they say it's turned off.

What a good thread! Glad to see it still up. I wonder if the dope dealers are going to branch off into incandescent light bulbs next. I'm just glad, though I know I shouldn't be, that most sheeple haven't thought of stocking up on those yet so there are still some to buy. I'm one of the unlucky ones that gets headaches from those dairy-queen-looking CFR's.

no. no lightbulb, no wasted energy. the ciruit is not complete, just like shutting off the switch on the wall.

but, when your electrocuting yourself by sticking said finger in said light socket, you will complete the ciruit. so you have to let go to stop shaking, cuz while you're dying, the power company is charging you 7 cents an hour while you're connected to the "hot" light socket.

let it go...literally...lol. F*** the power grid.

You should look into solar..

I live and work in Russia in the energy company. We are engaged in repair of electric power meters. I know over 100 ways to steal electricity. If anyone is interested - I can tell you in detail and described with diagrams and drawings (of course for a small fee. One method-10 $ PayPal)
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At home I used five methods.
Pay for electricity at 60% less :-)

I'm an engineer who has studied my home power usage

I got an extra meter and used it to monitor specific appliances, I simply put the extra meter in a meter box and wired my appliances thru it that way I could compare the total for the month to the individual appliance

the big energy users in a house are:

1 the hot water tank

2 electric heaters

3 air cond

4. refrig

5. anything else with a big motor

I switched to a woodstove, I replaced the big DHW heater with a small one and turned down the thermostat, got rid of the baseboard heaters and AC, and I built a preheater for the hot water heater - the woodstove heats the water before it goes to the hot water tank

basically I only use electricity for lights and computers and I try only to use the laptop

More and more consumers are aquiring power this way.

All she has to do is rub them two jugs together..& that oughta create enuff electricity to power the ol' locomotive...!

Plug something in every outlet to keep the electricity from leaking out of the wall. This will also help w/cooling/heating as it prevent air leaks. Also keeps bugs from coming in and out of wall. Hope this helps

Electricity "leaking out of wall"?

Whaaaaat?

lol

good one

Agree. We knew someone who did that to mask a grow op. When they finally caught him, they WAY overestimated the length of time which the meter had been altered, and charged him for all that time at the current rate plus penalties and interest, etc. The power companies are worse than the cops!!

Nowadays we all have these digital meters, and you can't mess with them - no wheels to slow down or anything.

Dont know if you have a cable box but this story shocked me as to how much power they use.


Cable Boxes Consume 'Startling' Amount Of Electricity

What's the biggest energy hog in your home? Your refrigerator? Your microwave? Not even close, says the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

In a report, NRDC says the cable TV set-top box, present in about 80 percent of U.S. homes, consumed approximately 27 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2010. That's equivalent to the annual output of nine average coal-fired power plants.

If you get your television signals from a cable, satellite or telephone company, you probably have a set-top box. There are about 160 million of them in use in the U.S., according to NRDC and its partner, Ecos.

Rest of story...
[link to www.consumeraffairs.com]

Good insulation meaning plug all holes, ducts, around windows, and even outlets not in use during winter to keep out the drafts

Use heating alternatives fireplace, stove, propane

Unfortunately no, wherever you live you are subject to the whims of whichever power company rules the area. The power companies themselves trade electricity back and forth across state lines, so if there is a huge power spike in one area electricity can be sent to cover it, but the individual rate-payers are stuck with whatever their "local" company charges. And it doesn't do any good to move either; thanks to computers they can track you even across state lines and your old company will then bill you for any electricity you may have "neglected" to pay before you left.

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^^main rates are set per hot water. counter hot water - the main problem. I decided the problem so - from above the counter is the filter. I take off the filter and push through the tube a thin wire. it blocks the wheel . no injuries. unprovable.