electric bill, are they watched by anyone

thehole said:

Depending on the size of the residence and the history of the electric bill amounts there one can easily double and triple their bill/usage without worry.

Many larger power companies(a friend of mine works for the biggest one in the US) they will actually send you a letter if use gets real high or abnormal, they ask you to respond to see if your total use is accurate because they believe the meter may be malfunctioning. So all in all the power company is not out to get anyone. Just like everyone they want to get paid.

There is also a myth that power companies "red flag" residences that have high energy spikes or usage, this is somewhat true, but it's mainly being flagged so a worker can go out and see if electricity is being stolen.

NEVER, have I read or heard of a power company flagging one of their own customers for high electrical use believing that person was growing pot. Flagging is mostly about electrical theft investigations. And the ONLY time law gets involved and asks a power company to release a customers electrical records is if they already have a investigation going on with you.

If you are talking about a 5,000 watt or less grow you have absolutely no worries unless you cannot pay your bill. I've even read of huge grow op busts where the person went years paying thousands a month in electrical bills but they got popped because of smell or a narc.

It's good to be caution and learn the facts, it's dangerous to be paranoid.

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Adi1989 said:

Guys, I used to work for British gas and they were constantly reporting people but only fair size operations.

We could see when there was a great voltage draw this is caused by the igniters that spark the discharge lamps, there is a great very unique draw to ignite the discharge lamp which we can see, when the bulb is first ignited, its only when they reach full brightness this then drops. Its a very, very unique power draw nothing else like it. LEDS are completely different but still unique, the transformers instead step down the voltage which we can also tell, but a great deal of people use LED for down lighting in their ceilings but these only draw 100 / 300w in houses. We can even tell when people open their fridge due to the power it takes to re-refrigerate, invasion of privacy I know!

The best way to hide it is use Tesla modules to charge and discharge the electricity, you can even charge Tesla modules at charging stations if you want to be super under the radar but a advanced charging system would need to be setup to charge at the 50kw charging speeds, no electrical company will report high usage its only if they see a correlation at certain times of the day lights on / off as people could have 1 electrical heater per room! Thats 3kw, if you have 10 rooms thats 30kw per hour 720kw per day! Some people just dont realise how much a electrical heater costs in power.

Ps What ever you do DO NOT Steal the power!!!!

Thats the biggest reason people got caught, its easy to pin point the house that is stealing power even if you are temporally connecting and disconnecting the meter.

Ps dont tell them I told you guys.

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ANC said:

If you get a letter like that just let them know you started 3d printing, and the heat plates are on for extended times or some shit

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Adi1989 said:

Guys, I used to work for British gas and they were constantly reporting people but only fair size operations.

We could see when there was a great voltage draw this is caused by the igniters that spark the discharge lamps, there is a great very unique draw to ignite the discharge lamp which we can see, when the bulb is first ignited, its only when they reach full brightness this then drops. Its a very, very unique power draw nothing else like it. LEDS are completely different but still unique, the transformers instead step down the voltage which we can also tell, but a great deal of people use LED for down lighting in their ceilings but these only draw 100 / 300w in houses. We can even tell when people open their fridge due to the power it takes to re-refrigerate, invasion of privacy I know!

The best way to hide it is use Tesla modules to charge and discharge the electricity, you can even charge Tesla modules at charging stations if you want to be super under the radar but a advanced charging system would need to be setup to charge at the 50kw charging speeds, no electrical company will report high usage its only if they see a correlation at certain times of the day lights on / off as people could have 1 electrical heater per room! Thats 3kw, if you have 10 rooms thats 30kw per hour 720kw per day! Some people just dont realise how much a electrical heater costs in power.

Ps What ever you do DO NOT Steal the power!!!!

Thats the biggest reason people got caught, its easy to pin point the house that is stealing power even if you are temporally connecting and disconnecting the meter.

Ps dont tell them I told you guys.

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