Power Bill increasing

MikeL · 2009-12-12T13:29:16+00:00

A friend of mine had a power bill of $100 / 2months ago and has beenincreasing to now $250.The power company came out and said everything is fine, and that theyshould have someone check all the appliances.Later they mentioned to me they had a lot of bulbs going out on aregular basis. Many years ago a friend told me a power transformerwould/could be the cause of that. (the power company checked andreplaced the transformer and that solve their light bulb problem)Could that be the case here as well, or should they check elsewhere.BTW...this is a double-wide mobile homethanks for your help!Mike

Dec 12, 2009 22 Replies

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Jim Elbrecht 16 years ago

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Yeah- mine's close, but only has one blinking upside-down triangle. It was blinking fairly slowly this morning.

That's kind of odd. Wonder what the other numbers could be. Does load change the numbers?

Jim

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Tony 16 years ago

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I think the one number may be the KW/H I am using at that second. There is a second number that flashed also. I'm now wondering if I caught it when a little heater was cycling on and off and that was the reason for the second number. It may have still been the KW/H ? I had just checked it a little while ago and the three dashes stayed on 1 dash for a few minutes. I had about 6 13 watt CFLs on and I don't know if anything else like the refrigerator, water heater,... was on. I suppose not.

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Don Klipstein 16 years ago

Last time I checked, many years ago, the main source of mercury was its sulfide ore, cinnabar. I imagine cinnabar and other mercury ores are safe unless one eats them, or heats them to high temperatures that cause the mercury compounds to break down and release mercury vapor.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

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