Power bills....

[D-Style]

or just remove the neutral wire from the meter....

The thing is, if you power usage goes from $100 to 0, people will come looking.....

But Electricity is bad shit, so dont play around if you dont know what your doing.

Back to topic...

Check calibration date on meter? does it still have the little wheel spinning?

If it is, and your renting, hit up the landlord to replace it to the new type.

[Guest boostin]

 D-Style said:

or just remove the neutral wire from the meter....

The thing is, if you power usage goes from $100 to 0, people will come looking.....

But Electricity is bad ****, so dont play around if you dont know what your doing.

Back to topic...

Check calibration date on meter? does it still have the little wheel spinning?

If it is, and your renting, hit up the landlord to replace it to the new type.

Yeah I've had a 230V whack before. Only a mild one but my arm ended up behind my head pretty damn quick!!

Its a newer electronic meter. We've told them they have to come and fix it. Hopefully its faulty, otherwise we have a mega power bill to pay and $150 charge for checking the meter.

[Guest itsgotgo]

still if its not faulty.....who is stealing your power...noy the first time its happend in nz

[Guest boostin]

Nah the sparky reckons our current draw is about right, and its the meter that's off. Fingers crossed he's right.

[zarnah]

^^^Sounds like you know what ya talking about...

[T.Rev]

When last months estimated was $450 I paid more to cover off this months...just as well I saw the other day! It has been cold tho...highest ever bill.

[Guest]

 CUDDAS']

[quote name='boostin said:

Nah the sparky reckons our current draw is about right, and its the meter that's off. Fingers crossed he's right.

/quote]

our massive $600.+ power bill's came from a large Oil heater we used when we had our first child, we had it goin all the time down in the baby's room, to replicate what it was like in the hospital. suck cos we got two of them before we sort help for it. my wife thought it was me in the garage with the lights & welder n stuff, but it wasn't.

We were in the same boat 3 years ago, new born baby in the middle of winter was hella expensive lol, oil heater going full tick for most part of the day and all night.

[Guest loren]

I've had two $800+ power bills this year alone due to genesis never sending anyone round to read the meter.

We are in the process of changing to mercury, not that I really expect any better, but just pissed at genesis.

To add salt to the wound, they lied their pants off by sending a halt letter to mercury, saying we had contacted

them and decided to stay... total lies.

[Jimbob]

we have been pretty good this year, on trust power meter reader every 2nd month (text sent day in advance to say hes coming over)

4 adults, $350 highest got wetback and nightstore

and damn the wetback makes for out showers

[D-Style]

Wetbacks are banned in alot of places now.

Gas is the way to go with hot water.

(well geo-thermo is better, but not easy in most areas)

Sad thing is, we are to the power companies will, and its not going to change anytime soon.

on side note, my power bill in aussie has been $580 for last 7 months. And thats with A/C going everyday.

[Jammasta]

When i lived in auckland, and had a ghetto shit hole house by myself. My 9 months (feb-end of oct) power bill was $20 less than my refund from vector.

[Swindog]

Crikey.

I have my HUGE heatpump on 24/7 during winter. The last bill with Trustpower was $130 after the discount AND I live in Invercargill.

The one before that was like $180.

[funkytown]

 TURTLE said:

When i lived in auckland, and had a ghetto **** hole house by myself. My 9 months (feb-end of oct) power bill was $20 less than my refund from vector.

haha yer i got one of those as well right after i moved there.. .was very pleasently surprised.

[QRAF]

 D-Style said:

on side note, my power bill in aussie has been $580 for last 7 months. And thats with A/C going everyday.

Yeah that would be about right if nz had a nuclear power plant like our Aussie neighbor's we also would have cheaper power and i couldn't see nz needing more than one.

this would also open up a lot of new relationships with other powerful countries but no...

[Jimbob]

 QRAF']

[quote name='D-Style said:

on side note, my power bill in aussie has been $580 for last 7 months. And thats with A/C going everyday.

/quote]Yeah that would be about right if nz had a nuclear power plant like our Aussie neighbor's we also would have cheaper power and i couldn't see nz needing more than one.

this would also open up a lot of new relationships with other powerful countries but no...

but gota keep the hippies happy, who automatically think of chernobyl and hiroshima when you menton nuclear

[cpt kernow]

+1 for nuclear. Only ignorance breeds fear.

about $150 a month for 3bed house 2 living rooms, 4 adults.

It's easy to work out what you use by looking at the labels and figuring how long it's on. My Flatmate had his heater on for all of June so I showed him that a 2Kw heater for 12 hrs a day was using 720Kw that month. Which was half the bill. No arguments there.

[Guest itsgotgo]

 Jimbob']

[quote name='D-Style said:

on side note, my power bill in aussie has been $580 for last 7 months. And thats with A/C going everyday.

/quote]

Yeah that would be about right if nz had a nuclear power plant like our Aussie neighbor's we also would have cheaper power and i couldn't see nz needing more than one.

this would also open up a lot of new relationships with other powerful countries but no...

I was in ozzy for 5 years,didnt know they had a nuclear powerplant ???

Can anyone confirm that?......

I know they have massive coal powered plants.

The power in brisvageas was good,had 5 adults and 2 kids in the house there,power bill was 350 every 2months and aircon going at 16 degrees in the summer

[QRAF]

of course they have nuclear they mine the uranium there.

[Guest itsgotgo]

 QRAF said:

of course they have nuclear they mine the uranium there.

That may be so,however i have never heard of them actually having a nuclear power station"scratches head"

I didnt think i was that green ha ha. ;D

Have a read of this.....they are debating as to weather they should have it or not.

I beleive you are incorrect

http://www.abc.net.au/science/programs/nuclearpower/

[D-Style]

I havent heard of a nuclear plant here....... Theres alot of stuff in the news of late about building a plant....

Also they dont mine much uranium here, due to bullshit with the US having to approve countries that buy it.

Coal and gas are the common ones here. Thou, most of the remote mines run diesel gen-sets.

Geo-thermo is the go in nz...... then nuclear.

And do away with greedy power companies and get the state back in control of the power infrastructure

Its funny cause theres alot of nuclear devices in nz hospitals, NDT, and industry sites. I even work with these devices. So the whole clean nuclear free nz is utter crap.

And dont even get me started on the Chernobyl Paranoia

They still produce power from Chernobyl's other reactors....

[DRFVDR]

 D-Style said:

I havent heard of a nuclear plant here....... Theres alot of stuff in the news of late about building a plant....

Also they dont mine much uranium here, due to bull**** with the US having to approve countries that buy it.

Coal and gas are the common ones here. Thou, most of the remote mines run diesel gen-sets.

Geo-thermo is the go in nz...... then nuclear.

And do away with greedy power companies and get the state back in control of the power infrastructure

Its funny cause theres alot of nuclear devices in nz hospitals, NDT, and industry sites. I even work with these devices. So the whole clean nuclear free nz is utter crap.

And dont even get me started on the Chernobyl Paranoia

They still produce power from Chernobyl's other reactors....

And some real interesting fish heheheheheh

[Guest boostin]

Just a quick update here....

We have convinced the power co to have the meter checked. BUT, and this is a goodie, it will be 4 - 6 weeks away!! I bet if it comes back faulty the w*nkers will insist we pay the full amount. They will have a scrap on their hands if they do though!!

[QRAF]

So everyone wondering why there power has gone

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2915300/Power-firms-pay-524m-in-dividends

Power firms pay $524m in dividends to the government

[Guest boostin]

Yeah I know! Wankers.

We still haven't heard back about the meter yet either. Its been over 3 weeks since they took it to get tested.

[QIK_KAS]

I haven't read the whole thread, but slap me if it's been repeated.

Have you been to the power comission complaints place? I can find the exxact details for you if you want.

I was having regular $100 - $200 power bills, then got a stunner of $1300 being a trained budget adviser I knew the right strings to pull, complained to the comissioner, got it tested, came back with nothing wrong with it, but b/c it was so weird they wiped it for me