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    Hi guys, recently my electric company charged me £500 for two months of electricity use. I'm sure this is pretty expensive.. but on the other hand I have 2 computers in the house.. one is 400watts and the other 300watts. If a PSU is bad, is it possible that it is going to consume more than its specified wattage? Or is it that I just need to buy an energy efficient PSU?
    How much did your electricity bill recently cost you?
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    about 60 quid a month iirc

    with 3-4 computers semi-permanently

    check you don't have an immersion heater turned on

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    hmmm... ive got the thermostat set at 60degrees so Im not sure where im losing the energy from? Can you explain further? thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leepox View Post
    Hi guys, recently my electric company charged me £500 for two months of electricity use. I'm sure this is pretty expensive.. but on the other hand I have 2 computers in the house.. one is 400watts and the other 300watts. If a PSU is bad, is it possible that it is going to consume more than its specified wattage? Or is it that I just need to buy an energy efficient PSU?

    I pay for £14kwh for daytime and £8 for night. How much did your electricity bill recently cost you?
    Query that bill, gas plus electicity is about £100/month for an average detached house spread over a year. My central heating is gas so my electricity bill is average about £40/month.

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    yeah, i would need to call them about this... it looks really really bad. Its a new house so i have to assume its veru energy efficient... I might have a run through the heating system and all the appliances here.

    I only wash clothes at night
    all lightbulbs are energy efficient ones
    2 computers, average of 200 hours per week
    tv, average of 10 hours a week
    all the other electricity intensive things usually I do at night

    So yeah, I think this is waay too much. We used to average £80 a month with the old house, same equipment, just one new laptop and thats it. Must be something related to the immersion heater as direct said.

    Do you think that bad PSU's can consume more wattage than they are set for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leepox View Post
    Do you think that bad PSU's can consume more wattage than they are set for?
    yes

    but they'd explode before doing any damage to a power bill

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    lmao! very well said... ok maybe i need to change my PSU now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leepox View Post
    Hi guys, recently my electric company charged me £500 for two months of electricity use. I'm sure this is pretty expensive.. but on the other hand I have 2 computers in the house.. one is 400watts and the other 300watts.....


    How much did your electricity bill recently cost you?
    £500 for two months!!!

    Ouch.

    Last bill ... £131 for the quarter. And that's a four bed house, with two offices stuffed to the gills with electronics gear. I think 10 computers at last count, plus three laser printers, two A3 photo printers, an A2 ( ) inkjet, several A4 inkjets, a dye-sub printer, A3 scanner, three A4 scanners, two film scanners and a host of radio transmitting gear. And two (don't ask) radio networks.

    Oh, and the domestic stuff too, like hifis, TVs, etc. And we cook using electricity.

    Sure, not all the above is turned on all the time, or even simultaneously, but nonetheless ... £500! Ouch!

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    that is why i am really really really really confused as to where that bill came from. It seems like its even impossible. It even looks like you consume more electricity than I do as I have a gas stove oven... and only 2 PC's which arent even on 24/7. Ill be calling the electricity company later on and demand explanation.

    Anyone here on eon/powergen?

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    That list may be a bit misleading, Leepox. I only power up what I need at any given time and the PCs, for instance, are for different things. It's rare to have more than half a dozen on at once, and overnight, all but one or two are off.

    Nonetheless, £500 for two months (and therefore by extrapolation, £3000 for the year) seems excessive unless you have something VERY thirsty running a lot.

    Oh, and you say you have a 400w and 300w PSU. Be careful how you interpret that, too. That'll indicate a top-end to what they'll draw, but it's likely they're actually using a lot less than that, unless both PCs are stuffed with high-power graphics card and loads of hard drives.

    I know it's a daft suggestion, but it isn't a bill based on an estimated reading, is it?

    Failing that, have you checked that the current reading and the reading on ther bill are consistent with each other? It wouldn't be the first time a meter reader has transposed a couple of digits. 32987 and 39287 would give rather different bills, for instance.

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    £500 is way over. You sure your neighbours are not connected to your Electricity supply!!

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    I'm currently going through the same thing, just in the first stages of putting a query through, as it seems that I've been charged a lot. Thing is that it happened before in the apartment I was in previously, where there was a faulty switch meaning it wasn't going from full to reduced charges at night....wasn't until our bill went over the £1500 mark that we noticed, and took ages to get a refund.
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    £105 for the quarter with 2 people sharing a 3 bedroomed house, dishwasher, tumble dryer etc.
    Only use those at night on economy7 though.

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    We pay £30 a month 2 bed semi with my 2 pc's on most of the time.

    We used to pay £33 a month in our 2 bed masonette and that had electric heating with econamy 7.

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    one thing to check is the address/meter id's match.

    When I was living in my old flat there was two roads in the city with very similar names, for the purpose of this example they where

    Big Road
    and
    Big Row

    The meter id for my 2 bed flat matched the address of the six bedroom town house in Big Road so for a year I paid their electricity bills and they paid mine. Got sorted in the end but it was very hard to get the money back.
    It is Inevitable.....


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