by v12 » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:10 am
jackrossi wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:39 am
v12 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:18 pm
Yes, that has been discussed before, I think, on this thread.
The meter likely only measures current. So, IF the voltage goes down, for the same amount of power, the current goes up. And IF the voltage goes down too much, your airco, fridge and whatever having an electric motor inside, my get damaged/breaks.
But, this is very hard to prove. It could very well be, you were lucky in the past and got delivered 240 VAC, and now they do deliver 220 VAC. Nearly 10% difference, though impossible to prove.
So, when you complain, you really need to know what you are talking about, as well, have past measurements logged in an indisputable way. Or so to say. Nop, not possible. But, that's not only in Cambodia, though about everywhere on earth.
Put some solar panels on the roof, that might help to reduce the costs, since the time period those solar panels produce power, your electricity demand is the highest (airco and fridge).
In one of my properties i have a whole building stabilizer which shows the voltage in input and it is almost always floating between 190V and 230V often swinging quite a bit.
Yeah, with more and more load on the local grids, the voltage will drop regularly and more and more. Implying for the same amount of power to be drawn, it needs more time, so the meter runs for a longer period. Not that difficult.
If these voltage drops get longer and more often than in the past, your bill would go up. IF your voltages does not drop, that won't be a cause for an E-Bill to go up.
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Yes, that has been discussed before, I think, on this thread.
The meter likely only measures current. So, IF the voltage goes down, for the same amount of power, the current goes up. And IF the voltage goes down too much, your airco, fridge and whatever having an electric motor inside, my get damaged/breaks.
But, this is very hard to prove. It could very well be, you were lucky in the past and got delivered 240 VAC, and now they do deliver 220 VAC. Nearly 10% difference, though impossible to prove.
So, when you complain, you really need to know what you are talking about, as well, have past measurements logged in an indisputable way. Or so to say. Nop, not possible. But, that's not only in Cambodia, though about everywhere on earth.
Put some solar panels on the roof, that might help to reduce the costs, since the time period those solar panels produce power, your electricity demand is the highest (airco and fridge).
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In one of my properties i have a whole building stabilizer which shows the voltage in input and it is almost always floating between 190V and 230V often swinging quite a bit.
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Yeah, with more and more load on the local grids, the voltage will drop regularly and more and more. Implying for the same amount of power to be drawn, it needs more time, so the meter runs for a longer period. Not that difficult.
If these voltage drops get longer and more often than in the past, your bill would go up. IF your voltages does not drop, that won't be a cause for an E-Bill to go up.