"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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This isn't as funny as it sounds. I was renting a room from a guy once,
and he was complaining that when he waters his lawn, they add the
gallonage (or whatever the word is) to his sewer bill, the theory
being that most of the water to a house goes out the city sewer.

We have a similar system here (San Diego County), but they compute the
"sewer" charge by using the lowest three winter billing periods over the
last four years. I guess it is an attempt to measure water consumption at a
time of year when there is less lawn sprinkling.

Multiply your voltage by your
current instant by instant, take the average (gives you power) and
multiply that by the duration in hours and you have your consumption.

They don't bill me instant-by-instant; they bill me for the power they
claim I've used over the course of a three-monthly period. Since power
is the product of voltage and current (and I've proved earlier that
both are zero)
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As commented before in this thread you are billed for 'energy' NOT power.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

You must have paid one of them at one time--so they keep sending them!

"Highland Ham" wrote in
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Multiply your voltage by your
current instant by instant, take the average (gives you power) and
multiply that by the duration in hours and you have your consumption.

They don't bill me instant-by-instant; they bill me for the power they
claim I've used over the course of a three-monthly period. Since power
is the product of voltage and current (and I've proved earlier that
both are zero)
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As commented before in this thread you are billed for 'energy' NOT
power.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH



I get billed by the KWH (kilowatthour)

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