...(assuming it's possible where you live)...
Take a look at your electrical meter and watch the spinning disk thingy to see how fast it's turning. As I understand it, the disk turns in some proportion to the amount of electricity you're using in your house.
Then, turn off everything you can think of to turn off. Leave stuff plugged in, but if it has an "off" switch, button, etc., turn it off. Then go out and see if the disk has slowed or stopped moving. Next, unplug everything you can. Please be safe with this and don't go overboard, of course. Check the meter again. Finally, if you can, throw the breaker for the entire house and see if *that* stops the meter.
I'm guessing that you'll only get the meter to stop by flipping the master breaker for the house. And maybe not even then, depending on whatever else might be drawing electricity between the meter and the breaker box. It should only be your house, but you never know.
This is a wonderful experiment to try to give you an idea of just how much vampire usage of electricity goes on in your house. Unfortunately, it also guarantees that you'll have to reset all your clocks, VCR/DVR programming, radio presets, and any number of other things dependent on having a constant stream of juice. ;) |
