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Electric bill any high

My electric bill has almost doubled since I added streamer and DAC. . How can I reduce consumption?

My Spectral amp and MIT Powerbar are plugged into the wall. My Spectral CD player, Spectral preamp, Aurender Streamer, and Berkeley DAC are plugged into s MIT Powerbar.

My preamp and DAC are always on. As is the Z powerbar. My CD player is on standby. I turn off the amp and streamer.

Is there snythungvi can do or do I just have to pay the Man for this expensive hobby.

 

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bbarten
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@deep_333 LOL

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nonoise
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A couple of summers ago I had an outrageous DWP bill that was almost triple what I used to incur. I was advised to pay it upfront and look into it as they'd simply credit my account should there have been some error. 

I took photos of my meter reading and kept track of it to see if it was running incorrectly and all it showed was that everything was normal. They tried to say I wasn't reading the meter correctly which drove me nuts. I even got one of those metering devices that you put between what you're testing and the wall outlet and got normal readings as well on all the major appliances I have. 

Eventually they sent out a meter reader to double check on things and it turns out the first guy misread my meter. You see, there are 3 banks of meters in a long, dark hall and mine is with the last group furthest in. Maybe it's something as simple or similar to that. 

All the best,
Nonoise

 

troutstreamnm
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Go solar and forget about it 😁

wyoboy
266 posts
 

If you live in Arizona it's your electric utility nearly doubling rates over the past 5 years !

 

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